Deals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemism, naturalism, and analogism - to account for all the ways we relate ourselves to nature.
"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delaa nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) A Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--title page verso.
