Beyond Nature and Culture

Name: Beyond Nature and Culture
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ISBN: 9780226212364

ISBN-10: 022621236X

ISBN-13: 9780226212364

Edition: 2013

Authors: Philippe Descola, Janet Lloyd, Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

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Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture?Culture--as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth--is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Descola shows this essential difference to be, however, not only a…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/22/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books.