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A Conversation with Philippe Descola
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Sull'antropocene. Introduzione alla traduzione di “Umano, troppo umano” di Philippe Descola
Articolo introduttivo alla traduzione di “Umano, troppo umano” di Philippe Descola.
Domenico Branca +2 more
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The Anthropocene narrative and Amerindian lifeworlds: anthropos, agency, and personhood
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
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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
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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
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PEASANTS, BRIGANDS, AND THE CHRONOPOLITICS OF THE NEW LEVIATHAN IN THE MEZZOGIORNO
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
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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
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Courage in the Anthropocene: Towards a philosophical anthropology of the present
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
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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
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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
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