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Author Kohn, Eduardo, author.

Title How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human / Eduardo Kohn
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs
Quechua mythology.
Ethnoecology -- Amazon River Region
Human-animal relationships -- Amazon River Region
Human-plant relationships -- Amazon River Region
Philosophy of nature -- Amazon River Region
Semiotics -- Amazon River Region
Social sciences -- Amazon River Region -- Philosophy
Electronic books.
e-books.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Human-animal relationships
Human-plant relationships
Ethnoecology
Philosophy of nature
Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs
Quechua mythology
Semiotics
Social sciences -- Philosophy
Amazon River Region
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013003750
ISBN 9780520956865
0520956869
1299738788
9781299738782