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Beyond Nature and Culture

By Philippe Descola, Janet Lloyd (trans) and Marshall Sahlins (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9780226144450 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2013, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9780226212364 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 22, 2014), cover price $35.00

Islands in the Rainforest: Landscape Management in Pre-columbian Amazonia

By Philippe Descola (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9781598746341 | Left Coast Pr, November 15, 2012, cover price $150.00

Las lanzas del crepusculo: Relatos jibaros, Alta Amazonia

Product Description: Crónica de un viaje, diario de una investigación de campo, este libro constituye el relato de la experiencia de Philippe Descola durante los tres años que vivió entre los achuar de la selva ecuatoriana y peruana -jíbaros con una inquietante reputación de cazadores de cabezas, para quienes la guerra es virtud cardinal-, su aprendizaje de los mitos y los cantos mágicos, de las experiencias chamánicas y la interpretación de los sueños, de los rituales funerarios y la preparación para la guerra...read more

By Philippe Descola

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9789505576333 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2005, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Crónica de un viaje, diario de una investigación de campo, este libro constituye el relato de la experiencia de Philippe Descola durante los tres años que vivió entre los achuar de la selva ecuatoriana y peruana -jíbaros con una inquietante reputación de cazadores de cabezas, para quienes la guerra es virtud cardinal-, su aprendizaje de los mitos y los cantos mágicos, de las experiencias chamánicas y la interpretación de los sueños, de los rituales funerarios y la preparación para la guerra.

Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle

An anthropologist describes his experiences living with the Jivaro Indians in the Amazon basin

By Philippe Descola

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Hardcover:

9781565842281, titled "The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle" | Reprint edition (New Pr, August 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An anthropologist describes his experiences living with the Jivaro Indians in the Amazon basin

Paperback:

9781565844384 | New Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An anthropologist describes his experiences living with the Jivaro Indians in the Amazon basin

In the Society of Nature: A Native Ecology in Amazonia

Product Description: The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. The author documents their knowledge of the environment, and explains how it is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philippe Descola

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Hardcover:

9780521411035 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: 'English translation of author's masterful and important study, originally published in French (Paris: Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1986) and translated into Spanish (1992).

Paperback:

9780521574679 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $64.99 | About this edition: The Achuar Indians of the Upper Amazon have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management.

Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives

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By Philippe Descola (editor) and Gisli Palsson (editor)

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Paperback:

9780415132169 | Routledge, September 1, 1996, cover price $53.95

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