acquired cognitive schema

four ontologies

nature

totemism

nationality

French

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

professor

British Academy

innovator in the field of

anthropology

Beyond Nature and Culture

is a theoretical model developed to describe what makes possible the environmentally acquired psychic, sensory motor, or emotional dispositions we call culture.

Acquired cognitive schemas, as Descola explains in Chapter 4, are theoretical models developed to describe precisely those capacities that make the often non-propositional forms of collective knowledge we call culture possible. 'They may be defined', Descola tells us, 'as psychic, sensorimotor and emotional dispositions that are internalized thanks to experience acquired in a given social environment' (p. 103). They enable us to structure our perceptions, organize our actions, thoughts, and feelings according to relatively stereotyped scenarios, and interpret patterns of behaviour and events in terms of a shared framework. See more at: http://aotcpress.com/articles/anthropological-cosmochemistry/#stash.kiopKoHk.dpuf

is comprised of animism, totemism, analogism, naturalism.

is problematic because it is strongly associated with a nature/culture dichotomy, an opposition and divide that was produced in 16th and 17th century europe.

following Descola, the tern nature is problematic because it is strongly associated with a nature-culture dichotomy. The idea that nature is opposed to culture, however, is a historical development within Western societies. Descola locates the establishment of the divide between nature and culture in sixteenthand seventeenth-century Europe. The idea of a nature

is an ontology that suggests a continuity between humans and nonhumans.

an ontology that postulates a continuity between humans and nonhumans, both on the plane of physicality (which designate not only the

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