Main entry:

Kohn, Eduardo.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]

Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
Introduction: Runa Puma -- The Open Whole -- The Living Thought -- Soul Blindness -- Trans-Species Pidgins -- Form's Effortless Efficacy -- The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) -- Epilogue: Beyond.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"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 Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. How Forests Think seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction-one that offers a more capacious way to think about the world we share with other kinds of beings."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780520276109 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520276108 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520276116 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0520276116 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520956865
0520956869

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.
Quechua Mœurs et coutumes.
Mythologie quechua.
History.
Human-animal relationships
Human-plant relationships
Ethnoecology
Philosophy of nature
Semiotics
Social sciences Philosophy
Quichua
Indigenes Volk
Animismus
Natur
Tiere
Umweltethik
Anthropologie
Naturphilosophie
Iwi taketake.
Quechua (folk)
Ekologi.
Djur och människor.
Mytologi.
Quechua Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples Ecology Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region
Amazonas-Gebiet
Ecuador Amazonområdet.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 292619
Call No.: BIB 236980
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available