The whole interview is extremely interesting. Not only it unveils Descola's personal/political history, but also exposes the complex web of interrelations between field ethnography, theoretical advancement and methodological discoveries he's built his writing on. It's particularly insightful for the understanding of how ontological turn came to be.
I found this interview concerning the personal trayectory of Descola and its impact in the process of the construction of his anthropology theory immensely interesting, particularly the experience from early on of living in a slight conscious dissociation from the world in which he participated, how field work accentuated that distance and how the return to Europe impressed upon him the domination of the consumerism of objects in western culture. It was also helpful in terms of the overview he gives of his 4 ontological schema. I very much look forward to his work on political anthropology.
The whole interview is extremely interesting. Not only it unveils Descola's personal/political history, but also exposes the complex web of interrelations between field ethnography, theoretical advancement and methodological discoveries he's built his writing on. It's particularly insightful for the understanding of how ontological turn came to be.
I found this interview concerning the personal trayectory of Descola and its impact in the process of the construction of his anthropology theory immensely interesting, particularly the experience from early on of living in a slight conscious dissociation from the world in which he participated, how field work accentuated that distance and how the return to Europe impressed upon him the domination of the consumerism of objects in western culture. It was also helpful in terms of the overview he gives of his 4 ontological schema. I very much look forward to his work on political anthropology.