Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge Hardcover - 2005
by Narby, Jeremy
- New
- Hardcover
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby has altered how we understand the shamanic cultures and traditions that have undergone a worldwide revival in recent years. Now, in one of his most extraordinary journeys, Narby travels around the globe-from the Amazon basin to the Far East-to probe what traditional healers and pioneering researchers perceive about the intelligence present in all forms of life.
Intelligence in Nature offers overwhelming illustrative evidence that independent intelligence is not unique to humanity. Indeed, bacteria, plants, animals, and other forms of nonhuman life display an uncanny proclivity for self-deterministic decisions, patterns, and actions. The Japanese possess a word for this universal knowing: chi-sei. For the first time, Narby presents an in-depth anthropological study of this concept in the West. He not only uncovers a mysterious thread of intelligent behavior within the natural world but also probes the question of what humanity can learn from nature's economy and knowingness in its own search for a saner and more sustainable way of life.
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- Title Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge
- Author Narby, Jeremy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 267
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcher, New York
- Date 2005-03-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-1585423998
- ISBN 9781585423996 / 1585423998
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.84 x 6.28 x 0.96 in (22.45 x 15.95 x 2.44 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004058849
- Dewey Decimal Code 156.3
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