How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. If jaguars also represent us—in ways…

Eduardo Kohn, non-human, thinking, anthropology, forests

“How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. If jaguars also represent us—in ways that can matter vitally to us—then anthropology cannot limit itself just to exploring how people from different societies might happen to represent them as doing so. Such encounters with other kinds of beings force us to recognize the fact that seeing, representing, and perhaps knowing, even thinking, are not exclusively human affairs.”

–Eduardo Kohn, How Forests Think (2013)