Chapter 6 Reading Response
Chapter 6 Reading Response According to the norms of the Western world, people recognize themselves as “human beings”. The other inhabitants of the earth are called “living things”. Though both animals and humans are organisms, people are considered to be persons, thus, more than just organisms. This is one of the paradoxes of the modern science. In this chapter Ingold argues that the anthropocentric view on the world is not the only possible. He writes about Ojibwa and their perception of the environment in order to restore “restoring human beings to the organic lifeworld in a way that does ...
