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Philippe Descola (born 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples.
Bibliography
- Books
- La Nature domestique: symbolisme et praxis dans l'écologie des Achuar, Paris: Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986. (in French)
- La selva culta: simbolismo y praxis en la ecología de los Achuar, Quito: Editorial Abya Yala, 1996. (in Spanish) [1]
- In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia, trans. Nora Scott, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Les Lances du crépuscule: relations Jivaros. Haute-Amazonie, Paris, 1993. (in French)
- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle, trans. Janet Lloyd, New York: New Press, 1996.
- Las lanzas del crepusculo: Relatos jibaros, Alta Amazonia, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, 2005. (in Spanish)
- Par-delà nature et culture, Paris: Gallimard, 2005. ISBN 2070772632. (in French) [2]
- Beyond Nature and Culture, trans. Janet Lloyd, The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- The Ecology of Others, trans. Geneviève Godbout and Benjamin P. Luley, The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 90 pp. [3]
- Edited books
- With Gísli Pálsson (eds.), Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, Routledge, 1996.
- Naturaleza y sociedad: Perspectivas antropológicas, trans. Stella Mastrangelo, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2001. (in Spanish) [4]
- With Jacques Hamel and Pierre Lemonnier (eds.), La Production du social: autour de Maurice Godelier, Paris: Fayard, 1999. (in French)
- Selected articles
- "The Genres of Gender. Local Models and Global Paradigms in the Comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia", in T. Gregor & D. Tuzin (eds.), Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, pp 91-114.
- "L'anthropologie de la nature", Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 57e Année, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 2002), pp 9-25. (in French)
- "Beyond Nature and Culture", Proceedings of the British Academy 139, 2006, pp 137-155.
- Eduardo Kohn, "A Conversation with Philippe Descola", Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2009.
- "Beyond nature and culture: The traffic of souls", HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2 (1), 2012, 473–500.
External links
- Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, pour la Chaire d'anthropologie de la nature, Paris, Collège de France, 29 March 2001. (in French)
- Philippe Descola: All kinds of Animals. CLAS-Summerschool, video, 71 min, 2012.
- Anthropologist Philippe Descola receives the CNRS Gold Medal, 2012.
- Descola at French Wikipedia