Beyond Nature and Culture

by Philippe Descola

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022621236X
• ISBN13: 9780226212364
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"