Eduardo Kohn’s guide to forest thinking
Eduardo Kohn’s guide to forest thinking

Summary/Abstract: In its essence, Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology beyond the Human (2013) is a semiotic guide to thinking with the forest. By exploring the variety of semiotic activity in the Amazonian forests and villages and mediating a culture’s coexistence with different semiotic actors, the book reveals what happens to thinking if it is opened up to thinking with those with whom one does not share a common language. By peeling off the symbolic cover of language, layers of human communication are exposed which are shared with non-human beings. Although the book is an anthropological monograph, it takes the reader along to thinking with the characters of the book as if it were a piece of fiction. Yet it relies on the disciplines and theoretical underpinnings of anthropology and semiotics to discuss the formation and transformation of human and non-human selves.

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