{"product_id":"beyond-nature-and-culture-philippe-descola-9780226144450","title":"Beyond Nature and Culture","description":"Philippe 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philippe Descola\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226144453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226144450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2013","brand":"Philippe Descola","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086394339583,"sku":"9780226144450","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4523f86d-a7c6-406a-9275-4ec0cff4129e.jpg?v=1769094430","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-nature-and-culture-philippe-descola-9780226144450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}