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- ↑ Eduardo Kohn awarded 2014 Bateson Prize | http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/625-eduardo-kohn-awarded-the-2014-bateson-prize Archived 2016-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Reviews at University of California Press http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520276109
- ↑ Kohn, Eduardo (2013) How Forests Think: Towards and Anthropology Beyond the Human, University of California Press
- ↑ Fortier, Martin (May 2018). "Of Trees and Signs". Books & Ideas.
- ↑ Hau vol. 4 No.2 (2014), http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/issue/view/hau4.2
- ↑ On selves, forms, and forces | http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.2.014/1129
- ↑ All too human (still): A comment on Eduardo Kohn's How forests think
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