Naturekind
language, culture and power beyond the human
$71.22
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2026
Summary
Naturekind: A Biosemiotic Revolution in Understanding Life
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 phy…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691270661 |
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| ISBN-10: | 069127066X |
| Author: | Melissa Leach, James Fairhead |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 472g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Melissa Leach
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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