Eduardo Kohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eduardo Kohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eduardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohn |
| SIGNATURE | KOHN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 924 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Je rêvais aussi en quelque sorte comme la forêt
Dans cet entretien inédit, l’anthropologue Eduardo Kohn, auteur de Comment pensent les forêts, revient sur le rôle que le rêve a joué dans l’élaboration de ce qu’il a appelé « l’anthropologie au-delà de l’humain » et du projet qu’il mène actuellement sur le psychédélisme. Il y aborde notamment la place qu’ont tenue les rêves – les siens et ceux de ses hôtes – dans son enquête de terrain, dans son enseignement universitaire et dans ses réflexions …
Forest Forms and Ethical Life
What kind of guidance can the world Eduardo Kohn calls “forest” provide for living well on Earth in times of planetary anthropogenic ecological fragmentation? How, that is, can humans learn to ecologize their ethics? Reflecting on his ongoing ethnographic research in and around Indigenous communities of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Kohn uses what he learned to help find a path that can orient humans in their attempts to live well in relation to the ma…
El todo abierto
planteo a continuacin, no todos los seres que los usan son humanos
Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy
Drawing on his ethnographic research among indigenous communities in Ecuador, Eduardo Kohn considers the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests. It is a diplomatic undertaking that seeks to integrate multiple ways of understanding the cosmos, and it is an ontological undertaking that rethinks the very nature of existence by recognizing the psychedelic (“mind-manifesting”) dynamics inherent in all life
What Is Analysis
Recent years in anthropology have seen a noticeable trend, moving from debates about theory to a concern with method. So while some generations ago we would tend to identify ourselves as anthropologists with reference to particular theoretical paradigms-for example, Marxism, (post-)structuralism, cognitivism, cultural materialism, interpretivism-these days our tendency is to align ourselves, often eclectically, with proposals conceived as methodo…
Afterword
This afterword reflects on how the Matsutake Worlds Research Group project can be considered as ontological. The multispecies ethnographic engagements presented in this special issue manifest not only the concepts inherent in the worlds of others that defy the categories of Western metaphysical thought (e.g., life forms seen as ‘events’ rather than mere things), but also the way in which non-human life forms themselves can demand that we practice…
What kind of world can what kind of we world? Staying with Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble
Philosophe, trop philosophe
How Dogs Dream… Diez años después
Este texto presenta la traducción al castellano del artículo How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement, publicado hace diez años por el antropólogo Eduardo Kohn en la revista American Ethnologist. Resultado de la etnografía desarrollada entre los runa de habla quichua en la Alta Amazonía de Ecuador, el trabajo supuso un punto de inflexión en la disciplina al mover el análisis antropológico a un ámbito más allá …
Como os cães sonham
Este artigo explora a interseção entre a etnografia amazônica e os estudos animais, questionando como diferentes espécies se envolvem e constroem mundos em conjunto. A partir da observação de cães Runa na Amazônia equatoriana, Kohn argumenta que os sonhos caninos oferecem uma janela para a compreensão das ontologias ameríndias, que reconhecem a agência e a interioridade de seres não-humanos. Ao analisar as práticas xamânicas e a relação entre hum…
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
Anthropology of Ontologies
The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, "symptomatic" and "diagnostic" of something. It is, I here argue, a response to the sense that sociocultural anthropology, founded in the footsteps of a broad humanist "linguistic" turn, a field that takes social construction as the speci…
Further thoughts on sylvan thinking
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press
Toward an ethical practice in the Anthropocene
Comment on LAIDLAW, James. 2014. The subject of virtue: An anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
How Forests Think
"Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human--and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the wo…
How Forests Think
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worl…
Persona, religión y jerarquía. Comentarios al dossier de Íconos 22
Cómo debemos entender el papel actual de la religión en la región andina y subandina? A nivel mundial, la religión ha surgido como un factor importante en la política contemporánea. Esto ha afectado la manera en que se forman los miembros de diversos grupos sociales como sujetos con capacidad de actuar políticamente
Two Proposals
Proposal 1: Anthropology Beyond the Human Eduardo Kohn Ethnographic attention to human-animal relations in Amazonia reveals the constitutively semiotic nature of all life.This helps us appreciate more broadly the ways in which semiotic logics that are not necessarily human or language-like underlie the modes by which thoughts and lives form associations. This changes our understanding of relationality, arguably anthropology’s central concern. Pro…
Where the Wild Things Are Now
A Conversation with Philippe Descola
The distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola has worked among the Jivaroan Achuar in Ecuador’s Amazon region, since the mid-1970s. Author of numerous influential books and publications, he holds a professorship at the Collège de France and is also Directeur d’études and Directeur du Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
How dogs dream
Under the rubric of an "anthropology of life," I call for expanding the reach of ethnography beyond the boundaries of the human. Drawing on research among the Upper Amazonian Runa and focusing, for heuristic purposes, on a particular ethnological conundrum concerning how to interpret the dreams dogs have, I examine the relationships, both intimate and fraught, that the Runa have with other lifeforms. Analytical frameworks that fashion their tools…
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador - By Michael Uzendoski
Understanding the Intimacy of Amazonian Sociality The Anthropology of Love and Anger
Runa realism
Stories about the forest recounted in a Quichua-speaking Runa village in Ecuador's Upper Amazon point to an element of ecological understandings that is rarely studied; these are primarily about capturing and sharing the experience of the process of knowing rather than trafficking in stabilized tokens of ecological knowledge. Runa understanding of nature is achieved through a poetic language rich in what philosopher Charles S. Peirce terms iconic…
Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest
In this article I compare the Quichua oral history of Oyacachi-one of the last autochthonous settlements of the cloud forest of Amazonian Ecuador-with written and iconographic ecclesiastical traditions regarding colonial-era events. This offers a unique opportunity to understand momentous political, economic, and religious change and how it is experienced locally. It also reveals the ways in which different histories are constructed out of shared…
How dogs dream
Under the rubric of an "anthropology of life," I call for expanding the reach of ethnography beyond the boundaries of the human. Drawing on research among the Upper Amazonian Runa and focusing, for heuristic purposes, on a particular ethnological conundrum concerning how to interpret the dreams dogs have, I examine the relationships, both intimate and fraught, that the Runa have with other lifeforms. Analytical frameworks that fashion their tools…
How Forests Think
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worl…
Anthropology of Ontologies
The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, "symptomatic" and "diagnostic" of something. It is, I here argue, a response to the sense that sociocultural anthropology, founded in the footsteps of a broad humanist "linguistic" turn, a field that takes social construction as the speci…
Runa realism
Stories about the forest recounted in a Quichua-speaking Runa village in Ecuador's Upper Amazon point to an element of ecological understandings that is rarely studied; these are primarily about capturing and sharing the experience of the process of knowing rather than trafficking in stabilized tokens of ecological knowledge. Runa understanding of nature is achieved through a poetic language rich in what philosopher Charles S. Peirce terms iconic…
Toward an ethical practice in the Anthropocene
Comment on LAIDLAW, James. 2014. The subject of virtue: An anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest
In this article I compare the Quichua oral history of Oyacachi-one of the last autochthonous settlements of the cloud forest of Amazonian Ecuador-with written and iconographic ecclesiastical traditions regarding colonial-era events. This offers a unique opportunity to understand momentous political, economic, and religious change and how it is experienced locally. It also reveals the ways in which different histories are constructed out of shared…
Further thoughts on sylvan thinking
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press
A Conversation with Philippe Descola
The distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola has worked among the Jivaroan Achuar in Ecuador’s Amazon region, since the mid-1970s. Author of numerous influential books and publications, he holds a professorship at the Collège de France and is also Directeur d’études and Directeur du Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
Como os cães sonham
Este artigo explora a interseção entre a etnografia amazônica e os estudos animais, questionando como diferentes espécies se envolvem e constroem mundos em conjunto. A partir da observação de cães Runa na Amazônia equatoriana, Kohn argumenta que os sonhos caninos oferecem uma janela para a compreensão das ontologias ameríndias, que reconhecem a agência e a interioridade de seres não-humanos. Ao analisar as práticas xamânicas e a relação entre hum…
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
Where the Wild Things Are Now
Philosophe, trop philosophe
Two Proposals
Proposal 1: Anthropology Beyond the Human Eduardo Kohn Ethnographic attention to human-animal relations in Amazonia reveals the constitutively semiotic nature of all life.This helps us appreciate more broadly the ways in which semiotic logics that are not necessarily human or language-like underlie the modes by which thoughts and lives form associations. This changes our understanding of relationality, arguably anthropology’s central concern. Pro…
What kind of world can what kind of we world? Staying with Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble
Infidels, Virgins, and the Black-Robed Priest
In this article I compare the Quichua oral history of Oyacachi-one of the last autochthonous settlements of the cloud forest of Amazonian Ecuador-with written and iconographic ecclesiastical traditions regarding colonial-era events. This offers a unique opportunity to understand momentous political, economic, and religious change and how it is experienced locally. It also reveals the ways in which different histories are constructed out of shared…
Understanding the Intimacy of Amazonian Sociality The Anthropology of Love and Anger
Runa realism
Stories about the forest recounted in a Quichua-speaking Runa village in Ecuador's Upper Amazon point to an element of ecological understandings that is rarely studied; these are primarily about capturing and sharing the experience of the process of knowing rather than trafficking in stabilized tokens of ecological knowledge. Runa understanding of nature is achieved through a poetic language rich in what philosopher Charles S. Peirce terms iconic…
How dogs dream
Under the rubric of an "anthropology of life," I call for expanding the reach of ethnography beyond the boundaries of the human. Drawing on research among the Upper Amazonian Runa and focusing, for heuristic purposes, on a particular ethnological conundrum concerning how to interpret the dreams dogs have, I examine the relationships, both intimate and fraught, that the Runa have with other lifeforms. Analytical frameworks that fashion their tools…
The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador - By Michael Uzendoski
A Conversation with Philippe Descola
The distinguished anthropologist Philippe Descola has worked among the Jivaroan Achuar in Ecuador’s Amazon region, since the mid-1970s. Author of numerous influential books and publications, he holds a professorship at the Collège de France and is also Directeur d’études and Directeur du Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris
Where the Wild Things Are Now
Two Proposals
Proposal 1: Anthropology Beyond the Human Eduardo Kohn Ethnographic attention to human-animal relations in Amazonia reveals the constitutively semiotic nature of all life.This helps us appreciate more broadly the ways in which semiotic logics that are not necessarily human or language-like underlie the modes by which thoughts and lives form associations. This changes our understanding of relationality, arguably anthropology’s central concern. Pro…
How Forests Think
"Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human--and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the wo…
How Forests Think
Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human—and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the worl…
Persona, religión y jerarquía. Comentarios al dossier de Íconos 22
Cómo debemos entender el papel actual de la religión en la región andina y subandina? A nivel mundial, la religión ha surgido como un factor importante en la política contemporánea. Esto ha afectado la manera en que se forman los miembros de diversos grupos sociales como sujetos con capacidad de actuar políticamente
Further thoughts on sylvan thinking
Response to Hau Book Symposium on Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press
Toward an ethical practice in the Anthropocene
Comment on LAIDLAW, James. 2014. The subject of virtue: An anthropology of ethics and freedom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Leviathan
L eviathan , an experimental ethnographic film by C astaing‐ T aylor and P aravel, is groundbreaking. By decoupling voice from any stable narrative perspective, it allows the viewer to be made over by a world beyond the human. It is, we argue, a form of dreaming—a modality of attention that can open us to the beings with whom we share this fragile planet. As such, L eviathan gestures to a sort of ontological poetics and politics for the so‐called…
Anthropology of Ontologies
The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, "symptomatic" and "diagnostic" of something. It is, I here argue, a response to the sense that sociocultural anthropology, founded in the footsteps of a broad humanist "linguistic" turn, a field that takes social construction as the speci…
Como os cães sonham
Este artigo explora a interseção entre a etnografia amazônica e os estudos animais, questionando como diferentes espécies se envolvem e constroem mundos em conjunto. A partir da observação de cães Runa na Amazônia equatoriana, Kohn argumenta que os sonhos caninos oferecem uma janela para a compreensão das ontologias ameríndias, que reconhecem a agência e a interioridade de seres não-humanos. Ao analisar as práticas xamânicas e a relação entre hum…
How Dogs Dream… Diez años después
Este texto presenta la traducción al castellano del artículo How Dogs Dream: Amazonian Natures and the Politics of Transspecies Engagement, publicado hace diez años por el antropólogo Eduardo Kohn en la revista American Ethnologist. Resultado de la etnografía desarrollada entre los runa de habla quichua en la Alta Amazonía de Ecuador, el trabajo supuso un punto de inflexión en la disciplina al mover el análisis antropológico a un ámbito más allá …
What Is Analysis
Recent years in anthropology have seen a noticeable trend, moving from debates about theory to a concern with method. So while some generations ago we would tend to identify ourselves as anthropologists with reference to particular theoretical paradigms-for example, Marxism, (post-)structuralism, cognitivism, cultural materialism, interpretivism-these days our tendency is to align ourselves, often eclectically, with proposals conceived as methodo…
Afterword
This afterword reflects on how the Matsutake Worlds Research Group project can be considered as ontological. The multispecies ethnographic engagements presented in this special issue manifest not only the concepts inherent in the worlds of others that defy the categories of Western metaphysical thought (e.g., life forms seen as ‘events’ rather than mere things), but also the way in which non-human life forms themselves can demand that we practice…
What kind of world can what kind of we world? Staying with Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble
Philosophe, trop philosophe
Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy
Drawing on his ethnographic research among indigenous communities in Ecuador, Eduardo Kohn considers the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests. It is a diplomatic undertaking that seeks to integrate multiple ways of understanding the cosmos, and it is an ontological undertaking that rethinks the very nature of existence by recognizing the psychedelic (“mind-manifesting”) dynamics inherent in all life
El todo abierto
planteo a continuacin, no todos los seres que los usan son humanos
Forest Forms and Ethical Life
What kind of guidance can the world Eduardo Kohn calls “forest” provide for living well on Earth in times of planetary anthropogenic ecological fragmentation? How, that is, can humans learn to ecologize their ethics? Reflecting on his ongoing ethnographic research in and around Indigenous communities of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Kohn uses what he learned to help find a path that can orient humans in their attempts to live well in relation to the ma…
Je rêvais aussi en quelque sorte comme la forêt
Dans cet entretien inédit, l’anthropologue Eduardo Kohn, auteur de Comment pensent les forêts, revient sur le rôle que le rêve a joué dans l’élaboration de ce qu’il a appelé « l’anthropologie au-delà de l’humain » et du projet qu’il mène actuellement sur le psychédélisme. Il y aborde notamment la place qu’ont tenue les rêves – les siens et ceux de ses hôtes – dans son enquête de terrain, dans son enseignement universitaire et dans ses réflexions …
Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (11 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works)