Philippe Descola

Broschiertes Buch

Beyond Nature and Culture

Beschreibung

Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.

Autor

Philippe Descola holds the chair of anthropology and heads the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France. He also teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Among his previous books to appear in English are In the Society of Nature and The Spears of Twilight. Janet Lloyd has translated more than seventy books from the French by authors such as Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Philippe Descola. Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. A member of the British Academy, he is the author of many books, including Culture and Practical Reason, How "Natives" Think, Islands of History, Apologies to Thucydides, and What Kinship Is--And Is Not, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9780226212364
• ISBN-10: 022621236X
• Artikelnr.: 40621419