By Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson
The members to this booklet specialize in the connection among nature and society from a number of theoretical and ethnographic views. Their paintings attracts upon fresh advancements in social conception, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of technological know-how, and a big selection of ethnographic case reports -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, city Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The dialogue is split into 3 elements, emphasising the issues posed by means of the nature-culture dualism, a few faulty makes an attempt to answer those difficulties, and capability avenues out of the present dilemmas of ecological discourse.
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A taste for sweet things, for example, may have served our hunter-gatherer ancestors well, in establishing a preference for fruit when it is at its most nutritious. But for the more affluent inhabitants of a modern industrial society it can have the less benign consequences of obesity and tooth decay (Symons 1992:139). In recent years an entirely new field of study, known as ‘evolutionary psychology’, has grown up around the attempt to identify those capacities and dispositions conventionally gathered under the rubric of ‘human nature’, and to explain how and why they evolved (Barkow, Cosmides and Tooby 1992).
