Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001
by
Philippe Descola
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities...