Does Marilyn Strathern Argue that the Concept of Nature Is a Social Construction?

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (4):437-442 (2016)
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Abstract

It is tempting to interpret Marilyn Strathern as saying that the concept of nature is a social construction, because in her essay “No Nature, No Culture: the Hagen Case” she tells us that the Hagen people do not describe the world using this concept. However, I point out an obstacle to interpreting her in this way, an obstacle which leads me to reject this interpretation. Interpreting her in this way makes her inconsistent. The inconsistency is owing to a commitment that she shares with previous British anthropologists, a commitment which points to an incompatibility between two intellectual traditions.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
University of Manchester (PhD)

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