Beyond Nature and Culture

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