How forests think toward an anthropology beyond the human

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn 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 Ecua...

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Hlavní autor:	Kohn, Eduardo
Médium:	E-kniha Kniha
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Berkeley University of California Press 2013
Vydání:	1st ed.
Témata:	Aguaruna Indians Aguaruna mythology Amazon River Region amazonian tribe animal and plant sentience anthropologist Anthropology arborist do dogs dream Ecology environmentalism environmentalist Ethnoecology-Amazon River Region ethnographic ethnography Human-animal relationships Human-animal relationships > Amazon River Region Human-plant relationships Human-plant relationships > Amazon River Region Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples > Ecology > Amazon River Region natural history Philosophy Philosophy of nature Philosophy of nature > Amazon River Region political activism Quechua Indians Quechua Indians > Social life and customs Quechua mythology Quichua Indians reductionistic solution runa of ecuador SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) Semiotics Semiotics > Amazon River Region social activist Social life and customs SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General Social sciences Social sciences > Amazon River Region > Philosophy SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social upper amazon what does it mean to be human what does it mean to be human anthropology ethnographic upper amazon environmentalism political activism reductionistic solution natural history anthropologist environmentalist do dogs dream arborist ecology runa of ecuador animal and plant sentience amazonian tribe social activist ethnography
ISBN:	9780520276109, 0520276116, 0520956869, 0520276108, 9780520276116, 9780520956865
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How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Runa Puma -- One. The Open Whole -- Two. The Living Thought -- Three. Soul Blindness -- Four. Trans-Species Pidgins -- Five. Form's Effortless Efficacy -- Six. The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) -- Epilogue: Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: ONE: The Open Whole TWO: The Living Thought THREE: Soul Blindness FOUR: Trans-Species Pidgins FIVE: Form’s Effortless Efficacy SIX: The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) EPILOGUE: NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
5. Form’s Eff ortless Effi cacy --
Introduction: Runa Puma --
2. The Living Th ought --
3. Soul Blindness --
CONTENTS --
Epilogue: Beyond --
6. The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) --
NOTES --
4. Trans-Species Pidgins --
BIBLIOGRAPHY --
Frontmatter --
INDEX
1. The Open Whole --