- Philippe Descola
Philippe Descola (born 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the
Shuar , and theJivaros .Background
He started with an interest in philosophy and later became a student of
Claude Lévi-Strauss . [ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0268-540X%28199204%298%3A2%3C9%3AAIWPD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage Anthropology Today Interview] ] His ethnographic studies in the Amazon region began in 1976 and was funded by CNRS. He lived with the Shuar or Achuar from 1976 to 1978. [ [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=uuXg4p7biVgC&dq=%22Philippe+Descola%22+&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=-dfjLlgG3x&sig=QJZZEeVo-dzN5EDnVs8twYS6hfM#PPR15,M1 Preface to "In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia"] ] His reputation largely arises from these studies. He is currently chair of anthropology at theCollège de France . His wife, Anne-Christine Taylor, is an ethnologist.Partial bibliography
*"In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia" Cambridge, 1994
*"The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon jungle"References
External links
* [http://www.ehess.fr/centres/las/ Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale (Official site)]
* [http://www.ehess.fr/centres/las/pages/equipes/invariants-descola.html Research]
* [http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/anthrop/p998923384551.htm Collège de France Chaire d'Anthropologie de la nature]
* [http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/chemins/fiche.php?diffusion_id=37449 Radio France Article]
* [http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Who-owns-nature.html Who owns nature ?] , by Philippe Descola, "La Vie des idées", 21 janvier 2008.
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