Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human

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Autoren	Melissa Leach, James Fairhead
Sprache	Englisch
ISBN	9780691270661
Verlag	Princeton University Press
Seiten	272
Größe	234 x 155 mm
Format	Taschenbuch
Bilder	-
Erscheinungsjahr	2025

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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