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In *How Forests Think*, Eduardo Kohn challenges fundamental assumptions about what it means to be human and how we understand the world around us. Drawing on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Kohn explores how Amazonian Indigenous peoples interact with the living beings of the forest—not just plants and animals, but also spirits and other non-human entities—as communicative subjects. He argues that forests possess a kind of thought, a semiotic web of life that extends beyond human comprehension, yet with which humans can engage. Kohn introduces the concept of "sylvan thinking" to describe this non-human mode of thought, emphasizing the role of signs and representation in shaping ecological relationships. By demonstrating how Runa people interpret and respond to the messages conveyed by the forest, Kohn offers a radical new perspective on anthropology, urging us to move beyond anthropocentric views of nature and recognize the agency and intelligence of non-human life.

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