Author: Descola Philippe Descola

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 …

Revetue de significations multiples, la nature a longtemps forme le pole principal d’une serie d’oppositions dans la pensee europeenne : nature et culture, nature et surnature, nature et art, nature …

Ce livre reunit les contributions au colloque organise au College de France en novembre 2008 a l’occasion du centenaire de Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). Au cours de cette longue vie, ponctuee par …

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 …