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What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies.

Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Africa --- Oral tradition --- Folklore --- Oral tradition. --- Folklore. --- #SBIB:39A2 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Storytelling --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Antropologie: methoden en technieken --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Oral tradition - Africa --- Folklore - Africa

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figures [representations] --- thinking --- heads [representations] --- musical instruments --- hands [animal components] --- De Verloren zoon --- romantic partners --- bathing --- Sculpture --- death masks --- sculpting --- moeder en kind --- musicians --- seamen --- Leda --- Europa [Mythology] --- Stein, Gertrude --- Prometheus --- Lipchitz, Jacques --- Cocteau, Jean --- Centre Pompidou [Paris] --- Drawing --- pencils [drawing and writing equipment] --- drawing [image-making] --- Miró, Joan --- Lipchitz, Jacques, --- bathing [hygienic activity] --- Prometheus [Mythological character] --- Europa [Mythological character] --- sculpture [visual works] --- harlequins [performing artists]

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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 world's most complex ecosystems. Whether or not we recognize it, our anthropological tools hinge on those capacities that make us distinctly human. However, when we turn our ethnographic attention to how we relate to other kinds of beings, these tools (which have the effect of divorcing us from the rest of the world) break down. 

*How Forests Think* seizes on this breakdown as an opportunity. Avoiding reductionistic solutions, and without losing sight of how our lives and those of others are caught up in the moral webs we humans spin, this book skillfully fashions new kinds of conceptual tools from the strange and unexpected properties of the living world itself. In this groundbreaking work, Kohn takes anthropology in a new and exciting direction–one that offers a more capacious.

Quechua Indians --- Quechua mythology --- Indigenous peoples --- Human-animal relationships --- Human-plant relationships --- Philosophy of nature --- Semiotics --- Social sciences --- Social life and customs --- Ecology --- Philosophy --- Quechua mythology. --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Man and plants --- Man-plant relationships --- Plant-human relationships --- Plant-man relationships --- Plants and man --- Relationships, Human-plant --- Human beings --- Plants --- Botany, Economic --- Ethnobotany --- Synanthropic plants --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Mythology, Quechua --- Social life and customs. --- Philosophy. --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Quechua (Indiens) --- Mythologie quechua --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Philosophie --- Anthropologie --- Écologie --- Indiens Quechua --- Autochtones --- Relations homme-animal --- Relations homme-plante --- Philosophie de la nature --- Ecologie --- Aborígens --- Animismus. --- Anthropologie. --- Ciències socials --- Djur och människor. --- Ekologi. --- History. --- Human-animal relationships. --- Human-plant relationships. --- Indigenes Volk. --- Mytologi. --- Natur. --- Naturphilosophie. --- Philosophy of nature. --- Quechua (folk). --- Quichua. --- Semiotics. --- Tiere. --- Umweltethik. --- Ecology. --- Amazon River Region. --- Amazonas-Gebiet. --- Ecuador --- Adivasis --- Philosophie. --- Écologie. --- Mythologie quechua. --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- social anthropology --- human ecology --- Quechua [culture or style] --- culturele antropologie --- Ethnoecology --- Kohn, Eduardo --- Rapport culture-nature --- Sémiotique --- Forêt --- Amerique du Sud --- Quechua Indians - Social life and customs --- Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Amazon River Region --- Human-animal relationships - Amazon River Region --- Human-plant relationships - Amazon River Region --- Philosophy of nature - Amazon River Region --- Semiotics - Amazon River Region --- Social sciences - Amazon River Region - Philosophy

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C'est trop peu dire que nous vivons dans un monde de symboles et qu'un monde de symboles vit en nous. De la psychanalyse à l'anthropologie, de la critique d'art à la publicité et à la propagande politique, sciences, arts et techniques essayent de décrypter ces différents codes, tant pour élargir le champ de nos connaissances, tant pour apprivoiser l'énergie sous-jacente à nos actes et à nos comportements. À travers quelques 1 600 articles, le lecteur circule à travers cette forêt de symboles dont les ramifications se poursuivent dans les strates les plus cachées de notre mémoire. En effet, l'expression symbolique traduit l'effort de l'homme pour déchiffrer et maîtriser un destin qui lui échappe, tant semblent impénétrables les obscurités qui l'entourent.

Comparative religion --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Semiotics --- 291 <03> --- 291.37 --- 7.045 <03> --- 39 <031> --- 291.37 Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- 291.37 Processies. Symbolen. Riten. Emblemen --- Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- Processies. Symbolen. Riten. Emblemen --- 39 <031> Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- Volkenkunde. Zeden en gebruiken. Culturele antropologie--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- 7.045 <03> Iconografie: allegorieen; symbolen; dodendansen; emblemata--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Iconografie: allegorieen; symbolen; dodendansen; emblemata--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- 003.62 --- #GGSB: Leeszaal --- #GGSB: Symbolen --- #gsdb3 --- #VCV monografie 1999 --- #VCV fonds R. van der Linden --- 302.2 --- 003.62 Symbolen. Tekens. Zinnebeelden (anders dan schrifttekens) --- Symbolen. Tekens. Zinnebeelden (anders dan schrifttekens) --- Social sciences Anthropology --- Folklore --- Mythology --- Symbolism in folklore --- Couleur --- Ethnologie --- Forme --- Iconographie --- Mythologie --- Religion --- Rêve --- Symbole graphique --- Symbolisme dans l'art --- French --- Dictionaries --- Symbolen --- woordenboeken. --- Signs and symbols --- Signes et symboles --- Dictionnaires français --- Morphologie --- Imaginaire --- Woordenboeken. --- Leeszaal --- 100 --- symboles --- wijsbegeerte algemeen --- philosophie généralités --- Folklore - Dictionaries - Dictionaries - French --- Folklore - Dictionaries - French --- Mythology - Dictionaries - French --- Symbolism in folklore - Dictionaries - French --- SIGNES ET SYMBOLES --- Symboles --- Symbolisme --- Dictionnaires

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Iconography --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 7.041 --- 75.041 --- (069) --- Thema's in de kunst de vrouw als femme fatale --- Schilderkunst 19de eeuw 1860-1910 afbeelding van de vrouw --- Fin-de siècle --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi Antwerpen Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten --- Women in art --- -met bijdragen van Hen van Os, Jacqueline Bel, Kristien Hemmerechts [et al.] --- kunst --- negentiende eeuw --- twintigste eeuw --- gender studies --- femmes fatales --- feminisme --- literatuur --- kunst en literatuur --- psychoanalyse --- kunst en psychoanalyse --- Jaël --- Judith --- Salomé --- seksualiteit --- erotiek --- mythologie --- Bijbel --- sirenen --- sfinxen --- heksen --- 75.035 --- 7.035 --- 75.036.1 --- 7.036.1 --- Iconografie de mens, portretten --- Schilderkunst de mens, portretten --- (Musea. Collecties. Tentoonstellingen) --- Exhibitions --- women [female humans] --- vrouw in de kunst --- fatale vrouw --- sphinxes --- watercolors [paintings] --- witches --- graphic arts --- lithographs --- gouaches [paintings] --- woodcuts [prints] --- Klinger, Max --- Barret Browning, Robert --- Desvallières, Georges-Olivier --- Cleopatra VII --- Helen --- Schwabe, Carlos --- Dritikol, Frantisek --- Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence --- Lamia --- Delville, Jean --- Dunaiszky, Laszlo --- Stuck, von, Franz --- Waterhouse, John William --- Khnopff, Fernand --- Poynter, Edward --- Frampton, Georges James --- Collier, John --- Stevens, Alfred --- Beardsley, Aubrey --- Mellery, Xavier --- Mossa, Gustav Adolf --- Sandys, Frederick --- de Morgan, Evelyn --- Dryope --- Medusa --- Willoughby, Vera --- Toorop, Jan --- Circé --- Grasset, Eugène Samuel --- Medea --- Rops, Félicien --- Draper, Herbert --- Cabanel, Alexandre --- Liebermann, Max --- Gyárfás, Jeno --- Mackennal, Bertram --- Clytemnestra --- Feure, de, Georges --- Stappen, van der, Charles --- Hacker, Arthur --- Tissot, James --- mythologische figuren --- femme fatale --- #BIBC:ruil --- Femmes fatales in art --- Thema's in de kunst ; de vrouw als femme fatale --- Schilderkunst ; 19de eeuw ; 1860-1910 ; afbeelding van de vrouw --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Antwerpen ; Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten --- Iconografie ; de mens, portretten --- Schilderkunst ; de mens, portretten --- Art, European --- met bijdragen van Hen van Os, Jacqueline Bel, Kristien Hemmerechts [et al.] --- Art --- drawing [image-making] --- Graphic arts --- Drawing --- Sculpture --- mythology [literary genre] --- painting [image-making] --- Painting --- sculpting --- Moreau, Gustave --- Munch, Edvard --- anno 1800-1999 --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Exhibitions. --- Iconografie --- Kunst --- Beeldhouwkunst --- Tekenkunst --- Schilderkunst --- Grafische kunsten --- lithografieën [prenten] --- houtsneden --- tekenen --- schilderen [kunst] --- mythologie [literair genre] --- aquarellen --- gouaches [schilderingen] --- beeldhouwen --- grafische kunsten --- sirene --- Helena --- Circe --- Clytaemnestra --- Stappen, van der, Karel --- Alma-Tadema, Laurens --- Helen [Mythological character] --- Circe [Mythological character] --- Clytemnestra [Mythological character] --- Dryope [Mythological character] --- Lamia [Mythological character] --- Medea [Mythological character] --- Medusa [Mythological character] --- sirens [imaginary beings] --- Browning, Robert Barret --- Stereotypes --- Tentoonstellingscatalogus --- Images of women --- Book