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    Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

    Philippe Descola

    The Achuar people have survived in isolation in the Amazonian jungle by aggressively resisting intruders. In this book, Descola depicts an altogether unfamiliar civilisation, whose values often seem bizarre to…

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    The Composition of Worlds

    Philippe Descola

    In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have…

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    The Composition of Worlds

    Philippe Descola

    In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have…

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    Una antropologia alterada por la alteridad: Entrevistas a Philippe Descola

    Philippe Descola,Florencia Tola

    Levi-Strauss, quien suele ser considerado politicamente como un conservador y que en 1937 aun era marxista, desarrollo la idea de que la antropologia es revolucionaria porque nos permite vernos a…

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    Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.

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    Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and emphasize the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism.

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    Beyond Nature and Culture

    Philippe Descola

    Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, the author formulates a sophisticated new framework, the four ontologies - animism…

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    Beyond Nature and Culture

    Philippe Descola

    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…

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    The Sex Thieves - The Anthropology of a Rumor

    Julien Bonhomme,Dominic Horsfall,Philippe Descola

    Translation of: Les voleurs de sexe: anthropologie d'une rumeur africaine.

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    In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

    Philippe Descola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

    The author documents the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of…

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    In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

    Philippe Descola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

    The author documents the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of…

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    The Ecology of Others Question of Nature

    Philippe Descola,Genevieve Godbout,Benjamin P. Luley

    Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this work, the author seeks to break down this divide…

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    In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

    Philippe Descola (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

    The author documents the Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of…

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    Wilderness

    Expeditions as an artistic medium, visions of a post-human world, the relationship between human beings and animals influence the work of many contemporary artists from 1900 to the present. Text…

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