Anthropology at the Time of the Anthropocene

A Personal View of What Is to Be Studied

Bibliographic Data

ID20082881
AuthorsBruno Latour (0000-0003-4557-174X, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages35-49
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Anthropology of Sustainability (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-56636-2_2
OpenAlexW2744203987
ISBN9781137566362
LanguageEN
Citations received83
References cited8

Although the term anthropocene proposed by geologists and climatologists has created much debate, it is hard to resist the importance it could have to define the discipline of anthropology. For a discipline dedicated to the plurality of cultures, the fact that earth scientists insist on bringing on the foreground still one more definition of the ‘anthropos’, this time considered as a new force of nature, has enormous consequences for the discipline. The chapter lists several of those consequences that could reopen a conversation between ‘physical’ and ‘cultural’ anthropology and, of special relevance to the vast question of ‘sustainability’, reopen the ways in which anthropology could be politically relevant

Anthropocene · Biology · Conversation · Environmental ethics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Anthropology · Communication · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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