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Author Kohn, Eduardo, author.

Title How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human / Eduardo Kohn.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
Summary Can forests think? Do dogs dream? This book challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, the book draws on ethnographic research to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Runa Puma; 1 The Open Whole; 2 The Living Thought; 3 Soul Blindness; 4 Trans-Species Pidgins; 5 Form's Effortless Efficacy; 6 The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead); Epilogue: Beyond; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs.
Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs.
Quechua mythology.
Quechua mythology.
Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region.
Ethnoecology.
Amazon River Region.
Human-animal relationships -- Amazon River Region.
Human-animal relationships.
Human-plant relationships -- Amazon River Region.
Human-plant relationships.
Philosophy of nature -- Amazon River Region.
Philosophy of nature.
Semiotics -- Amazon River Region.
Semiotics.
Social sciences -- Amazon River Region -- Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kohn, Eduardo. How forests think. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] 9780520956865 (OCoLC)857079372
ISBN 9780520956865 (electronic book)
0520956869 (electronic book)
9780520276109 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520276108 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520276116 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0520276116 (paperback ; alkaline paper)