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An anthropologist's quest to understand the world

During several years of ethnographic researches on the Amazonian Indians, the Achuar, Philippe Descola, the laureate of the 2012 Gold Medal of the CNRS, studied the relationship between human beings and nature. He gradually extended his thought to other societies and redefined our own relationship with nature and with the world.

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