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Von Ganzheiten zu Kollektiven. Wege zu einer Ontologie sozialer Formen

Author(s): Descola, Philippe

Abstract

Following the methods of structural anthropology and Bruno Latour, the contribution discusses societies not as wholes in Durkheim’s sense but as collectives. Along the fundamental duality between material processes (corporeality) and mental states (inwardness) four main ontologies of social forms are presented, in which the two axes regulate specific continuities and differences between humans and non-humans of a collective: animism, totemism, naturalism and analogism.

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Descola, Philippe: Von Ganzheiten zu Kollektiven. Wege zu einer Ontologie sozialer Formen. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 5 (2014), Nr. 2, S. 183-207. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18591.
@ARTICLE{Descola2014,
 author = {Descola, Philippe},
 title = {Von Ganzheiten zu Kollektiven. Wege zu einer Ontologie sozialer Formen},
 year = 2014,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18591}",
 volume = 5,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {183--207},
}
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