Descola

Phillipe Descola is a french antropology  that was born in 1949, he was student of Levi Strauss and made researchs in the Amazon in 1979, since 2001 he made the class of Nature Antropology at the College de France.
I like Phillipe Descola so much, because he break the traditional point of view about the Human been, that says that main  element that distinguish us from the other animals is the culture, in this direction are building two fields the Nature and the Culture. In the traditional social studyes the characteristic of one society are exclude like properties of the animals, that was seeing without the possibility of build rules, the organization that they have generally  has been considerated genetic by nature. In change Descola suggest 4 means ways to the human been understand his/her relationship with the enviroment  thats are totemism, animism, analogism and naturalism. In the totemism the people view  a material and spiritual continuity between they and the others self of their enviroment, in the animism the people view an inside continuity between them and their enviroment and material discontinuity, in the analogism there are a material and spiritual discontunuity and in the naturalism there are an material continuity and an inside dinscontinuity. The last point of view belong to the western culture and is the reasons by we see a radical difference between the way to be of  we and our enviroment.