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Philippe Descola (1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples.

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia, trans. Nora Scott, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (English)

Les Lances du crépuscule: relations Jivaros. Haute-Amazonie, Paris, 1993. (French)
- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle, trans. Janet Lloyd, New York: New Press, 1996. (English)
- Las lanzas del crepusculo: Relatos jibaros, Alta Amazonia, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, 2005. (Spanish)

Par-delà nature et culture, Paris: Gallimard, 2005. ISBN 2070772632. (French) [2]
- Beyond Nature and Culture, trans. Janet Lloyd, foreword Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago Press, 2013. (English)

The Ecology of Others, trans. Geneviève Godbout and Benjamin P. Luley, The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 90 pp. [3] (English)

with Gísli Pálsson (eds.), Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, Routledge, 1996. (English)
- Naturaleza y sociedad: Perspectivas antropológicas, trans. Stella Mastrangelo, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2001. (Spanish) [4]
with Jacques Hamel and Pierre Lemonnier (eds.), La Production du social: autour de Maurice Godelier, Paris: Fayard, 1999. (French)

"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. (English)
"L'anthropologie de la nature", Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 57e Année, No. 1 (Jan-Feb 2002), pp 9-25. (French)
"Beyond Nature and Culture", Proceedings of the British Academy 139, 2006, pp 137-155. (English)
Eduardo Kohn, "A Conversation with Philippe Descola", Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 7:2 (2009). (English)
"Beyond nature and culture: The traffic of souls", HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2:1 (2012), pp 473-500. (English)

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 * with Gísli Pálsson (eds.), ''[http://libgen.org/get?nametype=orig&md5=35FB660B77426DB5EEFD216536DB76B7&open=0 Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives]'', Routledge, 1996. {{en}}
 ** ''[http://libgen.org/get?nametype=orig&md5=C09FEC7747235CB78D39288A160868D3&open=0 Naturaleza y sociedad: Perspectivas antropológicas]'', trans. Stella Mastrangelo, Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 2001. {{es}} [http://www.scribd.com/doc/156206862/Philippe-Descola-Gisli-Palsson-Naturaleza-y-BookFi-org]
-* with Jacques Hamel and Pierre Lemonnier (eds.), ''La Production du social: autour de Maurice Godelier, Paris: Fayard, 1999. {{fr}}
+* with Jacques Hamel and Pierre Lemonnier (eds.), ''La Production du social: autour de Maurice Godelier'', Paris: Fayard, 1999. {{fr}}
 ; Selected papers and articles