Ecology of Others

Name: Ecology of Others
Price: 16.39 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780984201020

ISBN-10: 0984201025

ISBN-13: 9780984201020

Edition: 2013

Authors: Philippe Descola, Genevieve Godbout, Benjamin P. Luley

List price: $12.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $16.39

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure from the anthropocentric model and its rigid dualistic conception of nature and culture as distinct phenomena. In its stead, Descola proposes a radical new worldview, in which beings and objects, human and nonhuman, are understood through the complex relationships that they possess with one another. The Ecology of Otherspresents a compelling challenge to anthropologists, ecologists, and environmental studies scholars to rethink the way we…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 90
Size: 4.76" wide x 6.93" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

Genevieve Godbout is a children's book and fashion illustrator. She studied traditional animation in Montreal and at the prestigious school of "Gobelins" in Paris. She lives in Montreal. Visit her online at https://www.genevievegodboutillustration.com nbsp;and on Facebook/GenevieveGodboutillustration .



Foreword to the English edition


Introduction



The Clam Debate


On the proper use of siphons


Conjectural ecology


The two natures of Lï¿½vi-Strauss



Anthropological Dualism


Nature naturing, nature natured


A paradoxical object


Controversies and convergences


The path of reduction


The path of translation



To Each His Own Nature


Truths and beliefs


The mystery of the Moderns


Monisms and symmetries


Universalism and relativism


Conclusion


List of works referenced