Beyond nature and culture / Philippe Descola ; translated by Janet Lloyd ; foreword by Marshall Sahlins

Author: Descola, Philippe
Uniform Title: Par-delà nature et culture. English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Date: ©2013
Physical Description: xxii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Lloyd, Janet, 1934-

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Contents

Trompe-l'oeil nature. Configurations of continuity ; The wild and the domesticated ; The great divide -- The structures of experience. The schemas of practice ; Relations with the self and relations with others -- The dispositions of being. Animism restored ; Totemism as an ontology ; The certainties of naturalism ; The dizzying prospects of analogy ; Terms, relations, categories -- The ways of the world. The institution of collectives ; Metaphysics of morals -- An ecology of relations. Forms of attachment ; The traffic of souls ; Histories of structures -- Epilogue : the spectrum of possibilities.

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ISBN

9780226144450 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226144453 (cloth : alkaline paper)

Note

"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--Title page verso.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [429]-449) and index.

Source of Acquisition

Purchased with funds from the Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and Asian Studies; 2012

Endowment Note

Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs

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