Eduardo Kohn
Canadian anthropologist
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Eduardo Kohn's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eduardo Kohn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and winner of the 2014 Gregory Bateson Prize. He is best known for the book, How Forests Think. Work His 2013 book, How Forests Think, has been described by Cambridge Professor of Anthropology Marilyn Strathern as "thought-leaping in the most creative sense," and "[a] supreme artifact of the human skill in symbolic thinking.". The work draws upon four years ethnographic fieldwork with the Runa in the Upper Amazon in order to challenge the most basic assumptions of anthropological thought. Using the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, Kohn proposes that all life forms, not only humans, engage in processes of signification and therefore should be considered as able to think and learn. Arguing that selfhood does not solely belong to humans, Kohn proposes that any entity which communicates through the use of signs can be considered a self, leading to a complex 'ecology of selves' of which humans and nonhumans are both a part. Kohn's work builds upon a growing body of literature, from authors such as Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, which seeks to take the social sciences beyond the limits of strictly human relations.
Eduardo Kohn's Published Works
Published Works
- How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (2013) (928)
- How dogs dream: Amazonian natures and the politics of transspecies engagement (2007) (440)
- Anthropology of Ontologies (2015) (256)
- Toward an ethical practice in the Anthropocene (2014) (39)
- What Is Analysis?: Between Theory, Ethnography, and Method (2018) (31)
- Runa realism: Upper Amazonian attitudes to nature knowing (2005) (26)
- Some observations on the use of medicinal plants from primary and secondary growth by the Runa of eastern lowland Ecuador (1992) (21)
- Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest: A Backwoods History of Ecuador's Montana Region (2002) (20)
- A Conversation with Philippe Descola (2009) (15)
- Leviathan: An Ethnographic Dream (2015) (10)
- Where the Wild Things Are Now: Domestication Reconsidered (2010) (10)
- Further thoughts on sylvan thinking (2014) (9)
- The Living Thought (2013) (8)
- Ecopolitics (2020) (6)
- How Dogs Dream… Diez anos después (2017) (1)
- 3. Soul Blindness (2019) (0)
- Introduction: Runa Puma (2019) (0)
- 4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy (2020) (0)
- Understanding the Intimacy of Amazonian Sociality (2005) (0)
- 2. The Living Th ought (2019) (0)
- 6. The Living Future (and the Imponderable Weight of the Dead) (2019) (0)
- 4. Trans-Species Pidgins (2019) (0)
- Afterword (2018) (0)
- What kind of world can what kind of we world? Staying with Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble (2018) (0)
- 1. The Open Whole (2019) (0)
- Forest Forms and Ethical Life (2022) (0)
- Form’s Effortless Efficacy (2013) (0)
- 5. Form’s Eff ortless Effi cacy (2019) (0)
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