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Can forests think? Do dogs dream? Within this astonishing reserve, Eduardo Kohn troubles the foundations of anthropology, dialling into question our central assumptions about what this means to be real human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four many years of fieldwork on the list of Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Kohn draws on his abundant ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's most complex ecosystems. If we acknowledge it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities which make us distinctly real human. However, when we change our ethnographic attention to how we relate with other varieties of beings, these tools (which have the result of divorcing us from all of those other world) breakdown. How Forests Think seizes upon this breakdown as a chance. Avoiding reductionistic alternatives, and without sacrificing eyesight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this reserve skillfully styles new varieties of conceptual tools from the peculiar and unexpected properties of the living world itself. Within this groundbreaking work, Kohn can take anthropology in a fresh and exciting course - one which offers a far more capacious way to take into account the world we share with other varieties of beings.

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