<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jorge Ferrer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jorgeferrer2012@gmail.com">jorgeferrer2012@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:20 PM<br>Subject: Cabot's Ecologies of Participation [important new book]<br>To: Jorge Ferrer <<a href="mailto:jferrer@ciis.edu">jferrer@ciis.edu</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr">



















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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80);background:white"><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498568159/Ecologies-of-Participation-Agents-Shamans-Mystics-and-Diviners" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)">Ecologies of Participation: Agents,
Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners</span></a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-p2" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></span><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-s2"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)">“</span></span><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)">Ecologies of
Participation: Agents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners </span></i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)">is impossible to
capture in some neat established academic sound-bite, mostly because its
multiple claims are all quite impossible—impossible, that is, within our
present Western and colonized ways of speaking, thinking, and being. If we can
imagine ourselves outside or after that framework, we might say that the book,
like its author, is a shaman, and a diviner, and a traveler among worlds,
including future worlds. The vision of the human (and nonhuman) that emerges
through these words and worlds is unabashedly global, comparative, moral, and
magical. Here is a weird and wonderful book in which everything is alive and
even the stones tell stories. Really.”<span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-p3" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">—<b>Jeffrey
J. Kripal</b>, Rice University<span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-stretch:normal;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-s2"><i><span style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">“</span></span></i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white"><span style="font-stretch:normal">This is a revolutionary
book that combines the sensibilities of the scholar and the shaman. It boldly
challenges us to entertain the feasibility of ontologically thick multiple
worlds in creatively enriching and eco-sensitive ways. </span></span><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-s2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Engaging the works of authors as diverse as<i> </i>Alfred North
Whitehead, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Jeffrey J. Kripal,<i> Ecologies of
Participation</i></span></span><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-s2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> demonstrates the
fruitfulness of genuinely transdisciplinary, decolonial thinking in casting new
light on an impressive array of philosophical and cross-cultural dilemmas. </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background:white">Cabot’s invitation to inhabit multiple
ecologies is as timely as it is essential for our unprecedentedly planetary
times</span><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-s2"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">”<span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><span></span></span></p>

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Ferrer, </b><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space">California
Institute of Integral Studies</span></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-p2" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)">“A joyful,
verve-driven contribution to the conversation about the role of ontological
difference in getting a handle on what used to be called cultural diversity.
Impressive in its scope and ambition, this book takes the whole debate about
ontology in the humanities and social sciences to places it has never been
before.”<span class="m_9168288369949471361gmail-m-39679736499490547gmail-m-3864681752192735989gmail-m7859717865453612020m5589672057686501948gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span></span></span></p>

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