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After contributing to the ethnology of the Amazon, particularly through research among the Achuar, Philippe Descola has dedicated several years to the comparative anthropology of relationships between humans and non-humans, and more recently, to the anthropology of images. He is a professor emeritus at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Anthropology of Nature, and has served as a director of studies at EHESS.
He is the author of several influential works, including La Nature domestique, Les Lances du crépuscule, Par-delà nature et culture, Diversité des natures, diversité des cultures, L’Écologie des autres, La Composition des mondes, Une Écologie des relations, Les Formes du visible and, in collaboration, Les Idées de l’anthropologie, Dictionnaire de l’ethnologie et de l’anthropologie, Nature and Society, La Fabrique des images, Les Natures en questions, and Ethnographies des mondes à venir, all translated into around fifteen languages.
A recipient of the CNRS Gold Medal, Philippe Descola is a foreign member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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