Philippe Descola

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Philippe Descola (born 1949) is a French anthropologist noted for studies of the Shuar, and the Jivaros.

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[edit] Background

He started with an interest in philosophy and later became a student of Claude Lévi-Strauss.[1] 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.[2] His reputation largely arises from these studies. He is currently chair of anthropology at the Collège de France. His wife, Anne-Christine Taylor, is an ethnologist.

[edit] 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anthropology Today Interview
  2. ^ Preface to "In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia"

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