Description: "Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-delaa nature et culture (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) A Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005"--title page verso.
Brief description: Philippe Descola holds the chair of anthropology and heads the Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at the Collège de France. He also teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Among his previous books to appear in English are In the Society of Nature and The Spears of Twilight.
Review Quotes: "At the heart of the book is a compelling and original account of where the nature-culture binary has come from, where it might go--and what we might imagine in its place."
--Des Fitzgerald "Somatosphere"