Philippe Descola
Philippe Descola ( born June 19, 1949 in Paris ) is a French anthropologist.
Life
Descola is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure Lettres et sciences humaines (ENS LSH) and first began with a study of philosophy. Later he became a student at the French anthropologist Claude Lévi- Strauss.
Descola was known for his study of the Shuar, a group Jivaro - speaking Indians in the jungle of the Amazon region of Ecuador and Peru. This began in 1976 and was funded by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ). The next two years he lived with the Achuar in the Amazon basin.
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
2010 Descola was inducted into the British Academy. In 2012 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 he was awarded the Médaille d' or du CNRS.
Publications in German language
- 2011: Life and Death in the Amazon: The Jivaro Indians from the French by Grete Osterwald. Suhrkamp, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-58572-6.
- 2011: Beyond Nature and Culture, translated by Eva Moldenhauer. Suhrkamp, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-58568-9.