Philippe Descola: Politics of Worlding, Gebunden
Politics of Worlding
- An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics
- Publisher:
- William F Hanks
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, 10/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780197801659
- Item number:
- 12270263
- Volume:
- 240 Pages
- Weight:
- 408 g
- Format:
- 198 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 21.10.2025
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
The Politics of Worldlingpresents 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 research among Achuar peoples (formerly known as Jivaro) of the Upper Amazon, and on his erudite knowledge of the comparative literature in anthropology. He presents evidence that people in different societies construe the relation between nature and culture in fundamentally different ways, according to how they view human beings versus other-than-human beings.
Biography (Philippe Descola)
Philippe Descola ist Professor für Anthropologie, Schüler von Claude Lévi-Strauss und dessen Nachfolger am renommierten Collège de France. Er erhielt die Médaille d'argent des Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) und ist Ritter der Ehrenlegion.
