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30 janvier 2009

Questioning of this dichotomy

The dichotomy nature / culture is a recent Western cultural specificity, and is not defined anywhere. This paradigm is not just an analytical tool among others, it is also the cornerstone of modern epistemology. So are four Descola "means of identification" which are totemism, animism, the analogy and naturalism. Only the naturalist society (Western) produces the border between self and others through the idea of "nature". Nature is what is not the culture, which is not distinguishing features of the human species, and knowledge and know-how humans.

Its use as an analytical tool ethnology has sometimes been fruitful. However, Philippe Descola has shown in Beyond Nature and Culture (2005), the idea of nature is foreign to many companies.

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