Around the question

How to represent the worlds?

Audio 48:30

Philip Descola.

© Benedicte Roscot

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How have human societies represented the world?

How did they represent the visible and the invisible?

Nature and their cultures?

Meeting with the anthropologist Philippe Descola. 

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Let's refocus our gaze today by asking ourselves how different societies see the world and what does this say about our worlds.

Immense questions dug by our guest, the famous anthropologist

, formidable troublemaker to think in circles.

After having revolutionized all our anthropological and ecological approaches, Philippe Descola continues to dig his furrow in comparative anthropology, this time focusing on images, on the different ways in which humans have represented the world: from rock art to paintings by Flemish masters, passing through African or far North masks, Amerindian totems or the colors of Aboriginal dreams....

With the anthropologist

, CNRS gold medalist, professor emeritus at the Collège de France for his new book 

published at Seuil.

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