Beyond Nature and Culture
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Erscheinungsdatum
22.12.2022
Verlag
The University of Chicago PressSeitenzahl
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Übersetzt von
Janet Lloyd
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780226145006
"Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." -Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French edition
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 from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a 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 a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh.
"A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go-and what we might imagine in its place." -
Somatosphere
"The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss's
Anthropologie Structurale." -Bruno Latour, author of
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
"Descola's challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology... Highly recommended." -
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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 from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a 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 a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh.
"A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go-and what we might imagine in its place." -
Somatosphere
"The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss's
Anthropologie Structurale." -Bruno Latour, author of
An Inquiry into Modes of Existence
"Descola's challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology... Highly recommended." -
Choice
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