Born in Paris in 1949, Philippe Descola read Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Saint-Cloud, and ethnology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études VI (EPHE) where he prepared his thesis under the supervision of Claude Lévi-Strauss. After several years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Upper Amazon, he was appointed to the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) first as a lecturer then assistant professor. He holds a chair at the Collège de France since June 2000. Philippe Descola was awarded the médaille d’argent du CNRS in 1996 for his anthropological research on practices and knowledge of nature in tribal societies. He is the author of Les lances du crépuscule (The spears of twilight, Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle, translated by Janet Lloyd. The New Press) and Par-delà nature et culture (Gallimard, 2005).
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