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Philippe Descola

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Gender Male
Age 75
Born France
Notable ideasanimism
totemism
naturalism
Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss
Maurice Godelier
Gregory Bateson
InterestsEpistemology
Ethnology
Ontology
Anthropology
Job Anthropologist
BooksAnthropology 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
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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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