ABSTRACT
The second chapter will elaborate on two strands of work that aim to give a voice to spirit ontologies: works are discussed that represent what is called the ontological turn in cultural anthropology, and those that defend a new kind of animism as a form of environmental ethics. I will also relate these strands to the aim, developed in philosophical phenomenology, to overcome the dualisms of modern thought. These different approaches will be confronted with each other to see what they may add to the articulation of possibility conditions to begin to negotiate the environment.
