Philippe Descola
Gebundenes Buch

Forms of the Visible

An Anthropology of Figuration

Übersetzer: Porter, Catherine
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Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist's imagination.  Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern.  The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of conceiving the objects that make up the world, of perceiving the continuities and discontinuities in the folds of the world and of drawing the dividing lines between humans and nonhumans.  From Alaska...