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English beyond nature and culture philippe descola. The bororo are absent from descola s beyond nature and culture but not from the path that brought the author from chumpis house in the kapawi back to paris. Beyond nature and culture, proceedings of the british academy 9, 2006, pp 7155. Here, finally, it is brought to englishlanguage readers.
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