How forests think : toward an anthropology beyond the human /

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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, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kohn, Eduardo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Subjects:
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.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Human-animal relationships.
Human-plant relationships.
Ethnoecology.
Philosophy of nature.
Semiotics.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Amazon River Region.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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