Can forests think? Do dogs dream? With this amazing book, Eduardo Kohn issues the foundations of anthropology, phoning into query our central assumptions about what it means to be human-and thus unique from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Kohn pulls on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians connect to the many animals that inhabit among the world’s most complex ecosystems.

If we recognize about how exactly Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Individual it, our anthropological tools hinge about those capacities that make us distinctly individual. However, whenever we change our ethnographic attention to how we relate with other kinds of beings, these equipment (which have the result of divorcing us from all of those other globe) break down. How Forests Think seizes upon this breakdown as a chance. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without shedding view of how our lives and the ones of others are swept up in the moral webs we humans spin, this reserve skillfully fashions new types of conceptual tools from the unusual and unexpected properties from the living world itself. With this groundbreaking function, Kohn will take anthropology in a fresh and thrilling direction-one that offers a far more capacious method to take into account the world we share with other types of beings.