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− | Philippe Descola ( | + | '''Philippe Descola''' (1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples. |
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* ''[http://libgen.org/get?nametype=orig&md5=7B99B9F9CE5236EC99675E2D9BF7C277&open=0 La Nature domestique: symbolisme et praxis dans l'écologie des Achuar]'', Paris: Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986. (in French) | * ''[http://libgen.org/get?nametype=orig&md5=7B99B9F9CE5236EC99675E2D9BF7C277&open=0 La Nature domestique: symbolisme et praxis dans l'écologie des Achuar]'', Paris: Ed. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986. (in French) | ||
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* "[http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/download/98/123 Beyond nature and culture: The traffic of souls]", ''HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory'' 2 (1), 2012, 473–500. | * "[http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/download/98/123 Beyond nature and culture: The traffic of souls]", ''HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory'' 2 (1), 2012, 473–500. | ||
− | == | + | ==See also== |
+ | * [[Eduardo Viveiros de Castro]] | ||
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+ | ==Links== | ||
* [http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/lecons-inaugurales/UPL52665_LI_159_Descola.pdf Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, pour la Chaire d'anthropologie de la nature], Paris, Collège de France, 29 March 2001. (in French) | * [http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/lecons-inaugurales/UPL52665_LI_159_Descola.pdf Leçon inaugurale au Collège de France, pour la Chaire d'anthropologie de la nature], Paris, Collège de France, 29 March 2001. (in French) | ||
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3nbq80UP0 Philippe Descola: All kinds of Animals. CLAS-Summerschool], video, 71 min, 2012. | * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS3nbq80UP0 Philippe Descola: All kinds of Animals. CLAS-Summerschool], video, 71 min, 2012. | ||
* [http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2145.htm Anthropologist Philippe Descola receives the CNRS Gold Medal], 2012. | * [http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2145.htm Anthropologist Philippe Descola receives the CNRS Gold Medal], 2012. | ||
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Descola Descola at French Wikipedia] | * [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Descola Descola at French Wikipedia] |
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Philippe Descola (1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples.
Works
- 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.
See also
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