Abstract

What has happened to the project of ‘symmetrical anthropology’ in the last twenty years? What difference does it make to consider a multiplicity of cultures over the background of a unified nature, or a multiplicity of natures in addition to a multiplicity of cultures? In which way does it open up another type of scientific anthropology, no longer based on comparison but on ‘diplomacy’? Can modernity, as an interpretation of the former West, be recalled?Translated by Stephen Muecke.

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  • I would like to pass quickly over these last thirty years, because this new seminar series is devoted to working out the empirical future of anthropology.[1]

  • I’d like to thank Philippe Descola for accepting me, even on a provisional basis, into the ranks of this discipline whose colours I take on a bit like the jay sporting the feathers of the peacock

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Translated by Stephen Muecke

What has happened to the project of ‘symmetrical anthropology’ in the last twenty years? What difference does it make to consider a multiplicity of cultures over the background of a unified nature, or a multiplicity of natures in addition to a multiplicity of cultures? In which way does it open up another type of scientific anthropology, no longer based on comparison but on ‘diplomacy’? As an interpretation of the former West, be recalled?

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