{"product_id":"beyond-nature-and-culture-paperback","title":"Beyond Nature and Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippe Descola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Nature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e 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. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Descola\u003c\/b\u003e holds the chair of anthropology and heads the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale at the Collège de France. He also teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Among his previous books to appear in English are \u003ci\u003eIn the Society of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spears of Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJanet Lloyd\u003c\/b\u003e has translated more than seventy books from the French by authors such as Jean-Pierre Vernant, Marcel Detienne, and Philippe Descola. \u003cb\u003eMarshall Sahlins\u003c\/b\u003e is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. A member of the British Academy, he is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eCulture and Practical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHow \"Natives\" Think\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIslands of History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApologies to Thucydides\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhat Kinship Is--And Is Not\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 488\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.08 x 8.96 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454502256818,"sku":"9780226212364","price":64.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/7a23abb9f49c8e380bee1ac6cbd12358_17c8061d-bda7-4ace-bbaf-490d4a045b8a.webp?v=1778852765","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/beyond-nature-and-culture-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}