In the Society of Nature by Philippe Descola
The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature.
' an historical and ethnographic contribution to the study of a particularly important area of the New World, at the hinge of Amazonian and Andean high culturesIt is also of undoubted theoretical and methodological value, one that directs anthropological thought in new directions.' Claude Levi-Strauss
Scott, Nora: - Nora Scott is a recipient of the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Maurice Godelier's The Metamorphosis of Kinship.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521411035 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521411033 |
| Title | In the Society of Nature |
| Author | Philippe Descola |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Social And Cultural Anthropology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1994-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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