Philippe Descola

Philippe Descola

Philippe Descola (born June 19, 1949 in Paris ) is a French anthropologist . As a professor, he is associated with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) and the Collège de France .

Life

Descola is a graduate of the École normal supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines (ENS LSH) and first began studying philosophy . He later became a student with the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss .

Descola became known for his studies of the Shuar , a group of Jivaro- speaking Indians in the jungle of the Amazon region of Ecuador and Peru . These began in 1976 and were funded by the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). For the next two years he lived with the Achuar in the Amazon basin . Since 1987 he has been a professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Descola is now (2012) Professor of Anthropology of Nature at the Collège de France in Paris. His wife is the anthropologist Anne-Christine Taylor .

Awards

• In 2010 Descola was accepted into the British Academy .
• In 2011 he received the Prix ​​Édouard Bonnefous from the Académie des sciences morales et politiques .
• In 2012 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
• In 2012 he received the Médaille d'or du CNRS .
• 2014: International Cosmos Prize

Works

• 1986: La nature domestique. Symbolism et praxis dans l'écologie des Achuar. Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-7351-0165-7 .
• 1993: Les lances du crépuscule. Relations Jivaros , Haute Amazonie. Plon, Paris ISBN 2-259-00154-8
  • Übers. Grete Osterwald, 2011: Living and Dying in Amazonia. With the Jivaro Indians. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin ISBN 978-3-518-58572-6
• 1996: Ed. With Gísli Pálsson : Nature and Society. Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge, London. E-book 2004
• 1999: Ed. With Jacques Hamel and Pierre Lemonnier: La production du social. Autour de Maurice Godelier . Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle . Fayard, Paris ISBN 2-213-60380-4
• 2005: Par-delà nature et culture. Gallimard, Paris 2005
  • Übers. Eva Moldenhauer , 2011: Beyond nature and culture. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin ISBN 978-3-518-58568-9
• 2010: Diversité des natures, diversité des cultures. Bayard, Paris ISBN 978-2-227482074
• 2011: L'écologie des autres. L'anthropologie et la question de la nature. Éditions Quae, Paris
  • Übers. Eva Moldenhauer, 2014: The ecology of others. The anthropology and the question of nature. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin ISBN 978-3-88221-085-9
• 2014: with Tim Ingold : Être au monde. Source expérience commune? Press universitaire de Lyon, 2014 ISBN 978-2-7297-0887-0

literature

• Michael Kauppert: Philippe Descola's anthropology of nature, in France. Yearbook for European Ethnology, 6th ed. Heidrun Alzheimer u. a. Gorres Society . Schöningh, Paderborn 2011 ISSN  0171-9904 pp. 49-68

Web links

• Biography etc. Collège de France
• Literature by and about Philippe Descola in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member profile in the British Academy ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Newly elected members, April 2012 (PDF; 96 kB)
3. ↑ Cosmos Prize: The Prizewinner 2014. At: expo-cosmos.or.jp , accessed on September 25, 2015
4. ^ According to nature , FAZ October 8, 2011, p. 34