Anthropology of Nature

Name: Anthropology of Nature
Brand: Collège de France
SKU: 9782722602823
Price: 7.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-2-722-60282-3

Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001

de Philippe Descola (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Collège de France

juillet 2014

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Résumé

It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ontological fields, we are for one quite ill equipped to analyse all those systems of objectification of the world in which a formal distinction between nature and culture does not obtain. This type of distinction moreover appears to go against what the evolutionary and life sciences have taught us about the phyletic continuity of organisms. Our singularity in relation to all other existents is relative, as is our awareness of it.

Auteur

Philippe Descola (auteur)

Né en 1949, titulaire de la chaire d’anthropologie de la nature au Collège de France, il a entre autres publié : La Nature domestique. Symbolisme et praxis dans l’écologie des Achuar (1986) ; Les Lances du crépuscule (1993) ; Par-delà nature et culture (2005) ; La Fabrique des images (2010).

Auteur(s) : Philippe Descola