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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond 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 ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Forms of the Visible

    An Anthropology of Figuration

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Imagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist’s imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Composition of Worlds

    Interviews with Pierre Charbonnier

    by Philippe Descola ...
    In this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years.A student of Lévi-Strauss, Descola conducted ethnographic research among the Achuar of the upper Amazon in the late 1970s, focusing on ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Politics of Worlding

    An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    The Politics of Worldling presents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable précis of some of the central ideas that animate Descola's work, and an excellent gateway into a new vision of anthropology developed by one of its most distinguished practitioners. The lectures draw heavily on Descola's ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Anthropology of Nature

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Others

    by Philippe Descola, Phillipe Descola ...
    Translated by Geneviève Godbout, Benjamin P. Luley ...
    Series Book 42 - Paradigm ;
    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 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Journeys into the Invisible

    Shamanic Technologies of the Imagination

    by Charles Stépanoff ...
    Translated by Matthew H. Evans ...
    A lively exploration of the Indigenous traditions of shamanism in the Far North of Eurasia and North America.Charles Stépanoff draws on ethnographic literature and his fieldwork in Siberia to reveal the immense contribution to the scope of human imagination made by shamans and the cognitive techniques they developed over the centuries.Northern Shamans travel in mind in ways that appear mysterious ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Nature and Society

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Sex Thieves

    The Anthropology of a Rumor

    by Julien Bonhomme ...
    Translated by Dominic Horsfall ...
    While working in Africa, anthropologist Julien Bonhomme encountered an astonishing phenomenon: people being accused of stealing or shrinking the genitals of strangers on the simple occasion of a handshake on the street. As he soon discovered, these accusations can have dramatic outcomes: the “sex thieves” are often targeted by large crowds and publicly lynched. Moreover, such rumors are an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Issues in Epistemology

    Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...
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  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

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  • Structural Anthropology

    by Claude Levi-Strauss ...
    The structural method,” first set forth in this epoch-making book, changed the very face of social anthropology. This reissue of a classic will reintroduce readers to Lévi-Strauss's understanding of man and society in terms of individuals-kinship, social organization, religion, mythology, and art. ... Read more

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