Main entry:

Descola, Philippe, author.

Title & Author:

Beyond nature and culture / Philippe Descola ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Marshall Sahlins.

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]
©2013

Description:

xxii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--Title page verso.
"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture (Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2005) © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-449) and index.
Trompe-l'oeil nature. Configurations of continuity ; The wild and the domesticated ; The great divide -- The structures of experience. The schemas of practice ; Relations with the self and relations with others -- The dispositions of being. Animism restored ; Totemism as an ontology ; The certainties of naturalism ; The dizzying prospects of analogy ; Terms, relations, categories -- The ways of the world. The institution of collectives ; Metaphysics of morals -- An ecology of relations. Forms of attachment ; The traffic of souls ; Histories of structures -- Epilogue : the spectrum of possibilities.
Translated from the French.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Culture - as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth - is often seen as essentially different than nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Descola shows this essential difference to be, however, not only a specifically Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies"--Animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers nothing short of a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh"--provided by publisher.

ISBN:

022621236X (paperback)
9780226212364 (paperback)
9780226145006
022614500X

Subject:

Philosophy of nature.
Human ecology.
Philosophie de la nature.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.
Anthropologie
Kultur
Kulturanthropologe
Kulturelle Entwicklung
Kulturvergleich
Mensch
Natur
Naturphilosophie
Naturverständnis
Weltbild
Natuurfilosofie.
Ecologie.

Added entries:

Lloyd, Janet, 1934- translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296868
Call No.: BIB 243186
Status: Available