{"product_id":"beyond-nature-and-culture-by-philippe-descola-9780226212364","title":"Beyond Nature and Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Nature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCulture—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. Descola shows this essential difference to be, however, not only a specifically Western notion, but also a very recent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 nothing short of a fundamental reformulation by which anthropologists and philosophers can see the world afresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519508091116,"sku":"9780226212364","price":81.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226212364-beyond-nature-and-culture-1.jpg?v=1790160099","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/beyond-nature-and-culture-by-philippe-descola-9780226212364","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}