“…The development of such research is usefully underpinned by a critique of Descola’s method, which consists in ultimately placing emic discourses on animism, totemism, and analogism (discourses drawn from a variety of ethnographies, gathered from “ordinary people” outside the West), on one hand, and several etic discourses produced by philosophical thought in the West, on the other. The latter, as Digard (2006: 424) notes, is here “too exclusively reduced to the Aristotelian heritage, amputated from too many of its most credible aspects, essays and non- or anti-dualistic thinkers”. Several etic discourses, then, and not (of course) all etic discourses: many of the philosophies of nature are forgotten, which, in the orb of Romanticism, are all imbued with animism and analogism.…”