Institute of Sociology
of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology
of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Simonova V.V. Eduardo Kohn. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-5202-7611-6. Laboratorium. 2017. 9(2):153–158



Simonova V.V. Eduardo Kohn. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-5202-7611-6. Laboratorium. 2017. 9(2):153–158
ISSN 2078-1938
DOI 10.25285/2078–1938–2017–9–2–153–158

Posted on site: 25.01.18

 


Abstract

The review discovers the key issues and the content of the book as well as the path of the current theoretical discussions knwn as 'posthumanism'. The author of the book examines indigenous communities of the Upper Amazon River created a sophisticated and delicate cultural-linguistic model of relationshio with both their natural environment and constantly changing socio-political environmnrts. He based his ideas on the extended fieldwork in the region.

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