An anthropological perspective on biosemiosis raises important questions about sociality, ecology and communication in contexts that encompass many different forms of life. As such, these questions are important for understanding the problem of religion in relation to social theory, as well as understanding our collective, biosocial animal history and the development of human culture, as an articulation of power, on an evolutionary time scale. The argument presented here is that biosemiotics provides a framework for extending Talal Asad’s genealogical critique of religion to culture more broadly, providing an important perspective on power in relation to communication and in relation to the ‘supernatural’ attributes of language in a multi-species environment of signs and sign relationships.

关于生物符号学的人类学观点在包含许多不同生命形式的背景下提出了关于社会性、生态学和交流的重要问题。因此，这些问题对于理解与社会理论相关的宗教问题，以及理解我们的集体、生物社会动物历史和人类文化的发展都很重要，作为权力在进化时间尺度上的表达。这里提出的论点是，生物符号学提供了一个框架，将 Talal Asad 对宗教的谱系批判更广泛地扩展到文化，提供了一个重要的观点，即与交流相关的权力以及与多物种环境中语言的“超自然”属性相关的权力符号和符号关系。