{"product_id":"beyond-nature-and-culture-9780226212364","title":"Beyond Nature and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today  and 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?  Cultureas a collective human making  of art  language  and so forthis 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. 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 analogismto 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","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666324021301,"sku":"ByrdShop_022621236X","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226212364.jpg?v=1782428245","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beyond-nature-and-culture-9780226212364","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}