Ethnos· 2014Q1
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
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Short summary
This work proposes a new anthropological framework that moves beyond human-centric perspectives to include the agency and thought processes of non-human entities, specifically forests.
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Key points
- Proposes an anthropology that includes non-human agency and thought.
- Focuses on understanding how entities like forests 'think' and act.
- Challenges traditional human-centric anthropological frameworks.
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Abstract
In ‘How Forests Think’, Eduardo Kohn sets the agenda for an ambitious plan; to develop, an anthropology that could attend not only to the ways in which non-humans act or react, but also to the ways...
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Field: Geography, Planning and Development
Geography, Planning and DevelopmentSocial Sciences