Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture, Paris, Gallimard, 2006, 618 p. by Stéphane Callens

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Philippe Descola, L'écologie des autres. L'anthropologie et la question de la nature, Paris, Éditions Quae, coll. Sciences en questions, 2011, 110 p. by Antonio Dos Santos

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Dimitri Karadimas (1966-2017) by Philippe Descola

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Il est minuit moins quelques secondes by Philippe Descola

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Entre châtaigner et palmier chonta. Hommage à Juan Bottasso (1936-2019) by Geoffroy de Saulieu, Stéphen Rostain, Anne-Christine Taylor, Philippe Descola

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Vers un anthropomorphisme critique by Aurélie Choné

“…First, this paper argues that the thesis of ontological pluralism, as formulated by Philippe Descola, can enable a critical use of the notion of anthropomorphism in literary and cultural studies, while it takes on a different meaning when viewed within the framework of a non-naturalistic ontology such as analogism, and even loses all relevance within the framework of an ontology of nature such as animism. …”
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Physicalities in Transition: The Case of Hydropower Dams in French Alpine Valleys by Emmanuelle Santoire, Jean Desroche, Romain Garcier

“…To answer this question, we use Philippe Descola’s distinction between materiality and physicality and apply it to a case study of the Sautet hydroelectric dam in the French Alps. …”
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Ritual objects for the feast of sukkot: Theoretical analysis of the Talmudic prescriptions and some of their ethnographical achievements in the Balkans by Vartejanu-Joubert Madalina

“…Can we think of the artifact as an integral part of an anthropology of life as it has developed in the wake of the anthropology of nature founded by Philippe Descola? Judaism clearly fits within this perspective since a vast body of normative texts, notably the Babylonian Talmud, defines and discusses the jewishness of artifacts - whether ritual or everyday - by endeavoring to determine their correct position on a graduated scale ranging from nature to artifice, understood here as emic categories. …”
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Physicalités en transition : le cas des barrages hydroélectriques dans les vallées alpines françaises by Emmanuelle Santoire, Jean Desroche, Romain Garcier

“…To answer this question, we use Philippe Descola’s distinction between materiality and physicality and apply it to a case study of the Sautet hydroelectric dam in the French Alps. …”
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