Philippe Descola

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Philippe Descola is a prominent French anthropologist renowned for his influential work on animism, ontologies, and the comparative study of human–nature relations.

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instanceOf anthropologist
human
university professor
awardReceived CNRS Silver Medal NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
educatedAt Université Paris Nanterre NERFINISHED
École normale supérieure NERFINISHED
École pratique des hautes études NERFINISHED
employer Collège de France NERFINISHED
familyName Descola NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork Amerindian studies
anthropology
anthropology of nature
environmental anthropology NERFINISHED
ethnology
social anthropology
givenName Philippe NERFINISHED
hasAcademicAdvisor Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED
influenced anthropology of ontology
multispecies ethnography
influencedBy Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED
structuralism
knownFor comparative study of human–nature relations
ethnography of the Achuar people
theory of ontologies
work on animism
languageOfWorkOrName French
memberOf Collège de France NERFINISHED
name Philippe Descola NERFINISHED
nationality French
nativeLanguage French
notableWork Beyond Nature and Culture NERFINISHED
In the Society of Nature NERFINISHED
Les Lances du crépuscule NERFINISHED
Par-delà nature et culture NERFINISHED
positionHeld chair of Anthropology of Nature at Collège de France
professor at Collège de France
researchInterest Amerindian cosmologies
analogism
animism
cosmology
human–environment relations
naturalism
ontology
totemism
sexOrGender male
workLocation Paris

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