The Living Forest. Personifications of the Plant World in Native North America

For the peoples of the North-West Coast of America the forest was regarded as the domain of the non-human, where plants and animals lived and prospered. This distinction is not to be understood, as was customary in anthropology, as an opposition between Nature and Culture. The animals were not regar...

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Main Author: Enrico Comba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Torino 2016-12-01
Series:Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
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Online Access:http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/1943