Philippe Descola
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 76 |
| Born | France |
| Notable ideas | animism |
| totemism | |
| naturalism | |
| Influenced by | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| Maurice Godelier | |
| Gregory Bateson | |
| Interests | Epistemology |
| Ethnology | |
| Ontology | |
| Anthropology | |
| Job | Anthropologist |
| Books | Anthropology of Nature: Inaugural Lecture Delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001 |
| Beyond Nature and Culture | |
| The Ecology of Others | |
| In the society of nature | |
| The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle | |
| Spouse | Anne-Christine Taylor |
| Parents | Jean Descola |
| Education | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes |
| Ecole Normale Supérieure De Saint-Cloud | |
| Paris Nanterre University | |
| Awards | CNRS Gold Medal |
| International Cosmos Prize | |
| C.N.R.S. Silver Medal | |
| Date of birth | January 1,1949 |
| Influences | Claude Lévi-Strauss |
| Gregory Bateson | |
| Maurice Godelier | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 625137 |
Philippe Descola Life story
Philippe Descola, FBA is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Achuar, one of several Jivaroan peoples, and for his contributions to anthropological theory.
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