Regards croisés d'un anthropologue et d'un sociologue sur Par-delà nature et culture de Philippe Descola

Moving beyond naturalism and toward a new humanism. There is nothing universal in the nature/culture opposition in which anthropology originated, explains Philippe Descola in Par-delà nature et culture. Outside the West, this naturalist cosmology has never been relevant. While anthropology must a...

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Autor Principal: Pottier, Richard
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicado: 2007
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:Moving beyond naturalism and toward a new humanism. There is nothing universal in the nature/culture opposition in which anthropology originated, explains Philippe Descola in Par-delà nature et culture. Outside the West, this naturalist cosmology has never been relevant. While anthropology must aim at the universal, it must also ask whether it is not in fact time to free itself from this opposition, or, to put it in Descola’s words, whether anthropology of culture should not in fact « develop and couple up with an anthropology of nature ».