Culture - as a collective human making, of art, language, and so forth - is often seen as essentially different than nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Descola shows this essential difference to be, however, not only a specifically Western notion, but also a very recent one. Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world and theoretical understandings from cognitive science, structural analysis, and phenomenology, he formulates a sophisticated new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature
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Detaljer om materialet
Type
Bog
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Klassemærke
59.5
Bidragsydere
Originaltitel
Par-delà nature et culture
ISBN
97802262123649780226144450
Udgave
Paperback edition
Omfang
xxii, 463 sider
Forlag
University of Chicago Press
Målgruppe
alment niveauvoksenmaterialer