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RECORD NUMBER: 3 OF 17Main Title | Braiding sweetgrass / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Kimmerer, Robin Wall, | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Milkweed Editions, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 829743464 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 9781571313355; 1571313354; 9781571313560; 1571313567 | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Indian philosophy--North America ; Ethnoecology ; Philosophy of nature ; Human ecology--Philosophy ; Nature--Effect of human beings on ; Human-plant relationships ; Botany--Philosophy ; Potawatomi Indians--Biography ; Potawatomi Indians--Social life and customs ; Indians of North America ; Nature--Essays ; Nature--Plants--General ; Science--Life Sciences--Botany ; Indians, North American ; SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies--Native American Studies ; Indigenes Volk ; Naturphilosophie ; Naturverst andnis ; Okologie ; Botanik ; Naturverstndnis ; eOkologie ; Indigenous peoples--Ecology | ||||||||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Kimmerer, Robin Wall | ||||||||||||||||
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Edition | First edition. | ||||||||||||||||
Collation | x, 390 pages ; 23 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388). |
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Contents Notes | As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from Elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures Indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation." As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument: the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return. -- Description from back cover. |