1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140123503321

Autore

Descola Philippe

Titolo

Anthropology of nature [[electronic resource] ] : inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001 / / Philippe Descola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collège de France, 2014

Paris, France : , : Collège de France, , 2014

ISBN

2722602822 (ebook)

9782722602823 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France

Soggetti

Anthropology

Social sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This text has been translated by Liz Libbrecht in collaboration with Céline Surprenant (Collège de France).

Sommario/riassunto

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 for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ontological fields, we are for one quite ill equipped to analyse all those systems of objectification of the world in which a formal distinction between nature and culture does not obtain. This type of distinction moreover appears to go against what the evolutionary and life sciences have taught us about the phyletic continuity of organisms. Our singularity in relation to all other existents is relative, as is our awareness of it.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910342960303321

Titolo

Revista de derecho ambiental

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santiago, Chile : , : Centro de Derecho Ambiental, Universidad de Chile, , [2002]-

ISSN

0719-4633

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Soggetti

Environmental law - Chile

Environmental law

Law - Chile

Law

Law reviews.

Periodicals.

Chile

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Articles published online as accepted and cumulated semiannually.

None published, 2003-2004, 2010-2012, 2014?

Refereed/Peer-reviewed