Anthropology of nature : inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001 / / Philippe Descola.
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...
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| Superior document: | Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Paris, France : : Collège de France,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (36 pages):; digital, PDF file(s). |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 2722602822 (ebook) 9782722602823 (ebook) |
| Access: | Open access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Philippe Descola. |