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A Conversation with Philippe Descola

open access: yesTipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, 2009
exaly   +2 more sources

Sull'antropocene. Introduzione alla traduzione di “Umano, troppo umano” di Philippe Descola

open access: yesAmérica Crítica, 2020
Articolo introduttivo alla traduzione di “Umano, troppo umano” di Philippe Descola.
Domenico Branca   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 840-858, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Based on the observation that the Anthropocene narrative signifies a departure from the Cartesian nature/culture division dominant within modernist science, this article explores notions of personhood and agency among Amerindian peoples in the Amazon, the Andes, and Mesoamerica in comparison to the corresponding notions in modernist discourses.
Dan Rosengren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Umano, troppo umano

open access: yesAmérica Crítica, 2020
Traduzione del testo della conferenza inaugurale del simposio Comment penser l’anthropocène? organizzato da Philippe Descola e Catherine Larrère. Traduzione di Emanuele Fabiano e Domenico Branca.
Philippe Descola
doaj   +1 more source

The natural wine phenomenon and the promise of sustainability: Institutionalization or radicalization?

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 45-54, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Natural wine is produced with organic grapes without the use of additives. As a social phenomenon, it comprises rural winemakers and urban consumers interconnected by a vibrant global community of distributors, bloggers, experts, and associations.
Pablo Alonso González   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 24-44, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT The image of a backward, archaic South whose barbarian population had remained at a low tier of civilization was a child of Italian unification. Not unlike the Orientalist East, the South that meridionalist discourse brought forth was a “chronotopos”—that is, a time‐space that had supposedly remained in the past.
FERNANDO ESPOSITO
wiley   +1 more source

More‐than‐“bird”

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 609-621, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Bird language is an emerging practice among nature‐connection enthusiasts in which practitioners strive to comprehend the signals emitted by birds and other nonhuman beings. This practice shares much with contemporary academic interests in more‐than‐human sociality and foregrounds relational ways of knowing.
Ariel Appel, Nurit Bird‐David
wiley   +1 more source

Courage in the Anthropocene: Towards a philosophical anthropology of the present

open access: yesThe Philosophical Forum, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 249-259, Winter 2023., 2023
Abstract In the late 18th century, Immanuel Kant attracted attention for his criticisms of colonialism, that problematized the established boundaries between civilization and barbarism, and chastised English colonialism in particular. Some years later, however, in his lectures on Anthropology, he ventured some oddly racist views, concerning the ...
Julian Reid
wiley   +1 more source

How Great Was the “Great Divide of Nature and Culture” in Europe? Philippe Descola’s Argument under Scrutinity

open access: yesHistories, 2022
In his much-discussed work Beyond Nature and Culture, anthropologist Philippe Descola gives central importance to the “great divide” between nature and culture in European history. According to him, the “naturalism” created by this gap is at the heart of
Jon Mathieu
doaj   +1 more source

An argument for sparsity

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 347-362, June 2023., 2023
Abstract I consider the influence of the language used in anthropological analysis (the metalanguage). If in principle there are at least as many anthropologies as there are languages, then we must allow the possibility of seven thousand or so more or less incommensurable anthropologies.
David Zeitlyn
wiley   +1 more source

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