Rejoinder to Descola’s ‘Biolatry: a surrender of understanding’

Tim Ingold

doi:10.1080/00664677.2016.1212532

Rejoinder to Descola’s ‘Biolatry: a surrender of understanding’

Tim Ingold^*

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This comment offers a brief rejoinder to Phillipe Descola’s ‘Biolatry: A Surrender of Understanding’, and concludes an exchange that began with my article ‘A Naturalist Abroad in the Museum of Ontology: Philippe Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture’. I review the definitions of such key terms as naturalism, interiority and production, and the issues that divide us with regard to the possibility of unmediated knowledge, the salience of structural models, and the future of comparative anthropology. See also: A Naturalist Abroad in the Museum of Ontology: Philippe Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture10.1080/00664677.2015.1136591 Biolatry: A Surrender of Understanding (Response to Ingold’s A Naturalist Abroad in the Museum of Ontology) 10.1080/00664677.2016.1212523

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	329-332
Number of pages	4
Journal	Anthropological Forum
Volume	26
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2016.1212532
Publication status	Published - 2 Jul 2016

Keywords

comparative anthropology
interiority
models
Naturalism
production
semiosis

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