Introduction session part 2 : Overlapping cosmologies and systems of knowledge

What is the echo of Descola's work in Southeast Asia? Descola's anthropology of nature opens new horizons to review Southeast Asian ethnographic materials: To question the place of Hindo-Buddhist societies in regard to the ontological typology he proposes. A question he did not elaborate in his comparative approach and master piece Beyond Nature and Culture (( DESCOLA Philippe, Beyond Nature and Culture, Translated by Janet Lloyd Foreword by Marshall Sahlins, University of Chicago Press, ..