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Beyond Nature and Culture: Radcliffe-Brown Lecture In Social Anthropology
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This chapter discusses the concepts of nature and culture. It reveals that Radcliffe-Brown had a poor opinion of the concept of culture; he neglected to consider that the concept of nature was no more concrete or directly observable than ‘culture’. The chapter shows that other civilisations were able to adopt a variety of ways to distribute qualities to beings in the world, thus resulting in forms of discontinuity and continuity between humans and non-humans. It stresses that people should treat the modern ontological grid — moral singularity versus physical universality — as one of several other formulae employed to describe the structures of the world.
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- Authors
- DESCOLA, P.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 139, 2005 Lectures
- Publisher
- British Academy
- Published
- 2007-03-22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 86-101
- OpenAlex
- W2884005466
- Cited by
- 2,461
- References
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- FWCI
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- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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