Politics of worlding : an anthropological contribution to cosmopolitics / Philippe Descola ; with commentaries by Adom Getachew, Timothy J. LeCain, David Wengrow ; edited and introduced by William F. Hanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Descola, Philippe, author.

Getachew, Adom, author.

LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- author.

Wengrow, D., author.

Contributor:

Hanks, William F., editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Berkeley Tanner lectures

The Berkeley Tanner lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Values.

Human beings.

anthropology.

Descola, Philippe.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

'Politics of Worldling' presents Philippe Descola's Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2023 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers a highly readable precis of some of the central ideas that animate Descola's work, and an excellent gateway into a new vision of anthropology developed by one of its most distinguished practitioners. The lectures draw heavily on Descola's research among Achuar peoples (formerly known as Jivaro) of the Upper Amazon, and on his erudite knowledge of the comparative literature in anthropology. He presents evidence that people in different societies construe the relation between nature and culture in fundamentally different ways, according to how they view human beings versus other-than-human beings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780197801659

019780165X

OCLC:

1513409856

Publisher Number:

90102672572

CIPO000298272