Philippe Descola

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, foreword Marshall Sahlins, 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 papers and articles

• "The Genres of Gender. Local Models and Global Paradigms in the Comparison of Amazonia and Melanesia", in Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: An Exploration of the Comparative Method, eds. T. Gregor and D. Tuzin, 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 7:2 (2009).
• "Beyond nature and culture: The traffic of souls", HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2:1 (2012), pp 473-500.

See also

• Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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