How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
10 best books like How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Eduardo Kohn): Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, The Parasite, A Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With a Theory of Meaning, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, Beyond Nature and Culture, When Species Meet, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
| Author | Tim Ingold |
| ISBN | 0415576849 |
Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social....
| Author | Alva Noë |
| ISBN | 0809089173 |
A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
What is art? Why does it matter to us? What does it tell us about ourselves?
Normally, we look to works of art in order to answer these fundamental questions. But what if the objects themselves...
| Author | Michel Serres |
| ISBN | 0816648816 |
Influential philosopher Michel Serres’s foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres’s arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public dialogue—creating diversity and complexity...
| Author | Jakob Johann von Uexküll |
| ISBN | 0816659001 |
Is the tick a machine or a machine operator? Is it a mere object or a subject? With these questions, the pioneering biophilosopher Jakob von Uexküll embarks on a remarkable exploration of the unique social and physical environments that individual animal species, as well as individuals within species,...
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account...
| Author | Jane Bennett |
| ISBN | 0822346338 |
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman...
| Author | Diana Coole |
| ISBN | 0822347725 |
New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection...
Beyond Nature and Culture
| Author | Philippe Descola |
| ISBN | 0226144453 |
Philippe Descola has become one of the most important anthropologists working today, and Beyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central...
| Author | Donna J. Haraway |
| ISBN | 0816650462 |
In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending over $38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted...
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
| Author | Michael Taussig |
| ISBN | 0807841064 |
My aim in this book is to elicit the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. The devil is a stunningly apt symbol of the alienation experienced by peasants as they enter the ranks of the proletariat, and it is largely in terms of that...
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
| Author | Timothy Morton |
| ISBN | 0816689237 |
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
| Author | Paul Rabinow |
| ISBN | 0520251776 |
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a...
| Author | Eduardo Viveiros de Castro |
| ISBN | 1937561216 |
The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian...
The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology
| Author | Hans Jonas |
| ISBN | 0810117495 |
One of the most prominent thinkers of his generation, Hans Jonas wrote on topics as diverse as the philosophy of biology, ethics, social philosophy, cosmology, and Jewish theology -- always with a view to understanding morality as the root of our moral responsibility to safeguard humanity's future....
| Author | Stefan Helmreich |
| ISBN | 0520250621 |
Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists, worlds usually out of sight and reach: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists at sea and in labs in Monterey Bay, Hawai'i, the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
| Author | Davi Kopenawa |
| ISBN | 0674724682 |
The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami...
| Author | Rosi Braidotti |
| ISBN | 0745641571 |
The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated...
| Author | Kathi Weeks |
| ISBN | 0822351129 |
In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks boldly challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. While progressive political movements, including the Marxist and feminist movements, have fought for equal pay, better work conditions, and the recognition...
On Deep History and the Brain
| Author | Daniel Lord Smail |
| ISBN | 0520252896 |
When does history begin? What characterizes it? This brilliant and beautifully written book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. Daniel...
| Author | Robert M. Emerson |
| ISBN | 0226206815 |
In this companion volume John van Maanen's Tales of the Field, three scholars reveal how the ethnographer turns direct experience and observation into written fieldnotes upon which an ethnography is based.
Drawing on years of teaching and field research experience, the authors develop...
