Beyond Nature and Culture

University of Chicago Press, 2014. 463pp. Original cloth covered boards. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Foreword by Marshall Sahlins. Pages are bright and clean (unmarked). Binding is tight and secure. Boards and dust jacket have slight bumping to head/heel of spine. We have added a removable mylar coevring to the dust jacket for protection. Nice copy. . 2nd Printing. Hard… Read more about this item

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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" -

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New. 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… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; 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 new framework, the "four ontolo

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Paperback / softback. New. 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 new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.

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