Naturekind (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
272
Utgivningsdatum
2025-10-07
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Dimensioner
10 x 220 x 150 mm
Vikt
505 g
ISBN
9780691270661

Naturekind

Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

av Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-10-07
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A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and culture Are language and culture uniquely human, justifying an exceptionalism that sets people apart from the rest of nature? New discoveries in the biological sciences have challenged this assumption, finding syntax, symbolism and social learning beyond the human, and identifying culture as a second inheritance system across the phyla from whales to insects and plants. Biologists are constrained, however, by the mechanistic ways communication is understood. In Naturekind, Melissa Leach and James Fairhead address this impasse by extending insights from structural linguistics, social semiotics, anthropology and Indigenous theorization into wider life, integrating them with new biological findings to develop a new structural biosemiotics paradigm. Leach and Fairhead argue that such a paradigm can provide a unified theory of meaning-making across all of nature, or "naturekind," allowing new theorisation about human and nonhuman communication and culture. They examine people's communicative encounters with chickens, horses, bees, bats and plants, and with assemblages of living and nonliving entities-forests, seas, soils and cities. Marrying the new biology with the structural social sciences, they contend, provides powerful insights for living well with wider life on a shared planet and transforming political relations.
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Melissa Leach is professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Executive Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI). James Fairhead is professor of social anthropology at the University of Sussex. Leach and Fairhead are the coauthors of Misreading the African Landscape: Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic; Reframing Deforestation: Global Analyses and Local Realities-Studies in West Africa; Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean; Vaccine Anxieties: Global Science, Child Health and Society; and other single-authored books.

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