Beyond Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Nature and Culture write by Philippe Descola. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Beyond Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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 edition 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, and so forth—is often seen as essentially different from nature, which is portrayed as a collective of the nonhuman world, of plants, animals, geology, and natural forces. Philippe Descola shows this essential difference to be not only a 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. By thinking beyond nature and culture as a simple dichotomy, Descola offers a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh. “A compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go—and what we might imagine in its place.” —Somatosphere “The most important book coming from French anthropology since Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Anthropologie Structurale.” —Bruno Latour, author of An Inquiry into Modes of Existence “Descola’s challenging new worldview should be of special interest to a wide range of scientific and academic disciplines from anthropology to zoology . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Caribbean Literature and the Environment
Caribbean Literature and the Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caribbean Literature and the Environment write by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. This book was released on 2005. Caribbean Literature and the Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture
Rousseau Between Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rousseau Between Nature and Culture write by Anne Deneys-Tunney. This book was released on 2016-03-07. Rousseau Between Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United States examine how Rousseau's philosophy can be reinterpreted from the point of view of a constant dialectical debate between nature and culture. In this, Rousseau is our true contemporary.
The Nature of Culture
The Nature of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature of Culture write by Miriam N. Haidle. This book was released on 2016-01-19. The Nature of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume introduces a model of the expansion of cultural capacity as a systemic approach with biological, historical and individual dimensions. It is contrasted with existing approaches from primatology and behavioural ecology; influential factors like differences in life history and demography are discussed; and the different stages of the development of cultural capacity in human evolution are traced in the archaeological record. The volume provides a synthetic view on a) the different factors and mechanisms of cultural development, and b) expansions of cultural capacities in human evolution beyond the capacities observed in animal culture so far. It is an important topic because only a volume of contributions from different disciplines can yield the necessary breadth to discuss the complex subject. The model introduced and discussed originates in the naturalist context and tries to open the discussion to some culturalist aspects, thus the publication in a series with archaeological and biological emphasis is apt. As a new development the synthetic model of expansion of cultural capacity is introduced and discussed in a broad perspective.
Between Nature and Culture
Between Nature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Nature and Culture write by The J. Paul Getty Museum. This book was released on 1999-09-09. Between Nature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "He completed the assignment in two phases: The photographs made during the first phase (April 1984-March 1989) capture the natural ruggedness of the terrain and establish its relationship to the developed neighboring enclaves. Those made during the second phase (April 1992-August 1997) not only record the actual construction process but also reveal Deal's personal perspective on the qualities of light and the creation of form. Represented in this book as a selection from the resulting portfolio, Topos, a Greek word meaning place, site, position, and occasion - Deal's artistic legacy to the Gerry Center."--BOOK JACKET.
