{"title":"Philippe Descola","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilippe Descola\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into how human societies perceive and interact with the world around them. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eBeyond Nature and Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the complex relationships between humans and their environments, challenging conventional divisions and inviting readers to reconsider cultural and natural boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful examinations of anthropology and philosophy that blend historical perspectives with contemporary analysis. Through titles like \u003cem\u003eForms of the Visible\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Composition of Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e, Descola's writings illuminate diverse ways of understanding existence, making them essential for those interested in education, history, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forms-of-the-visible-by-philippe-descola-9781509561964","title":"Forms of the Visible","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImagery and figuration are not just figments of an artist’s imagination. Perception and imagination are always shaped by what habit has taught us to discern. The visual path we spontaneously trace through the world depends on where we are situated in the four regions of the ontological archipelago: animism, naturalism, totemism, or analogism. Each of these four regions corresponds to a way of conceiving the objects that make up the world, of perceiving the continuities and discontinuities in the folds of the world, and of drawing the dividing lines between humans and nonhumans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Alaskan Yup’ik masks and Aboriginal bark paintings to miniature landscapes from the Song dynasty and Dutch Golden Age interior scenes: each image reveals, through what it shows or fails to show, a certain figurative regime, identifiable by the formal means it uses and by the device through which it can unleash its power to act. The figurative regime enables us to grasp – sometimes better than words can – the contrasting ways of living that characterise the human condition and its relation to the nonhuman. By comparing a great diversity of visual images and artworks, Descola masterfully lays the theoretical foundations for an anthropology of figuration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the world’s leading anthropologists, Philippe Descola has developed a comparative anthropology of relations between humans and nonhumans that has revolutionised both the human sciences and our ways of thinking about the great ecological issues of our time. His new book, \u003cem\u003eForms of the Visible\u003c\/em\u003e, will be of great value to students and scholars of anthropology, visual art, and art history, and to anyone interested in art, culture, and the relations between the human and nonhuman worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871399923948,"sku":"9781509561964","price":71.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12641893482725.jpg?v=1759877223"},{"product_id":"the-composition-of-worlds-by-philippe-descola-9781509555482","title":"The Composition of Worlds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this autobiographical reflection, the distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola looks back on his intellectual career and examines both the central themes of his work and the key questions that have shaped anthropological debates over the past forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA student of Lévi-Strauss, Descola conducted ethnographic research among the Achuar of the upper Amazon in the late 1970s, focusing on how native societies relate to their environment. In this book, he sheds fresh light on the evolution of his thinking from structuralism to an anthropology beyond the human, on the critique of the modern separation between nature and society, and above all on the genesis and scope of his major work \u003ci\u003eBeyond Nature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis synthesis of the ways in which humans view their relationships with non-humans proposes four schemas for the ‘composition of worlds’ (animism, naturalism, totemism, analogism) that characterise our ways of inhabiting the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePresented in the form of an extended conversation with Pierre Charbonnier, this book is both a lucid introduction to the work of one of the most original anthropologists writing today and an impassioned plea for ontologies that are more accommodating of the diversity of beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000772575468,"sku":"9781509555482","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12577073482725.jpg?v=1763303559"},{"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.pro\/collections\/philippe-descola.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}