4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy
Eduardo Kohn
Abstract
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.
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