Name: Naturekind. Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human
SKU: 64752890
Price: 36.75 EUR
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Author: James Fairhead;Melissa Leach
ISBN: 9780691270661

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Naturekind. Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Author

James Fairhead;Melissa Leach

Year

2025

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4x15.5x1.8 cm

ISBN13

9780691270661

Naturekind. Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

James Fairhead;Melissa Leach (Author) · Princeton University Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Naturekind. Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human"

A new paradigm that integrates human and nonhuman communication and cultureAre 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.