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Politics of Worlding : An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Descola, Philippe.
- Series:
- The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2025.
- Summary:
- The 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 précis 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Politics of Worlding: An Anthropological Contribution to Cosmopolitics
- Anthropology: A Revolutionary Science?
- Anthropology as a Comparative Endeavor
- Lecture I Alter-Politics Philippe Descola
- Ways of Worlding
- Cosmopolities
- Lecture II Animist Worlds and Their Denizens Philippe Descola
- Patterns of Relation
- Can an Animist Territory Be Circumscribed?
- Lecture III Coping With Hierarchy Philippe Descola
- Sacred Kings, Despots, Rainmakers, Powerless Rulers, and Andean Churches
- Conclusion: Cosmopolities in the Making
- COMMENTARIES
- Strategies for a Decolonized Social Science
- Genealogical History
- Reading Against the Grain
- The Extra-Modern in the Modern
- Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution: Toward a Post-Anthropocentric Collective Humanism
- "Weapon of Choice": Some Archaeological Reflections On Cosmopolitics and Indigenous Critiques of European Culture
- RESPONSE
- Comments On Comments: Hybridization and Symmetrization
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names of Persons
- Index of Places and Ethnonyms.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-780168-4
- 0-19-780167-6
- 0-19-780166-8
- OCLC:
- 1535446066
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