"Originally published as Philippe Descola, Par-deláa nature et cultu re (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2005) Ã Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2005" --title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-449) and index.

Trompe-l'oeil nature. Configurations of continuity ; The wild and th e domesticated ; The great divide -- The structures of experience. The schemas of practice ; Relations with the self and relations with others -- The dispositions of being. Animism restored ; Totemism as an ontolo gy ; The certainties of naturalism ; The dizzying prospects of analogy ; Terms, relations, categories -- The ways of the world. The institutio n of collectives ; Metaphysics of morals -- An ecology of relations. Fo rms of attachment ; The traffic of souls ; Histories of structures -- E pilogue : the spectrum of possibilities.