How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human / Eduardo Kohn.
Material type: TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013Description: xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520276116 (pbk.)
- Quechua Indians -- Social life and customs
- Quechua mythology
- Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- 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
- 986.6 KOH 23 011771
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 986.6 KOH 011771 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 011771 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index.
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
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.
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