Philippe Descola Books
Beyond Nature and Culture
"Successor to Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France, Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influ...
Read MoreIn the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia
"English translation of author's masterful and important study, originally published in French (Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986) and translated into Spanish (1992). Provides ethnographi...
Read MoreThe spears of twilight
The Spears of Twilight is the extraordinary story of three years among the legendary Jivaro Indians of South America by Philippe Descola, a student of Claude Levi-Strauss. Isolated in the jungle of...
Read MoreAmour et colere
By Philippe Descola, Michel Ciry
"The originality and the main contribution of this ethnography of the Achuar, an indigenous group of the Peru/Ecuador border region, is its style, which departs from standard monographic writing to...
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