ISBN:
9781571313355
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (409 Seiten)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 1953 - Braiding sweetgrass
DDC:
305.597
Schlagwort(e):
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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Botany - Philosophy
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Indigenous peoples Ecology
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Philosophy of nature
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Human ecology Philosophy
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Nature Effect of human beings on
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Human-plant relationships
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Botany Philosophy
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Indian philosophy
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Potawatomi Indians Biography
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Potawatomi Indians Social life and customs
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Botany - Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Indianer
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Weisheit
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Lokales Wissen
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Ökologie
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Potawatomi
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Brauch
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Natur
Kurzfassung:
An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer 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 this land, consider plants and animals to be our ol
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Preface; Planting Sweetgrass; Skywoman Falling; The Council of Pecans; The Gift of Strawberries; An Offering; Asters and Goldenrod; Learning the Grammar of Animacy; Tending Sweetgrass; Maple Sugar Moon; Witch Hazel; A Mother's Work; The Consolation of Water Lilies; Allegiance to Gratitude; Picking Sweetgrass; Epiphany in the Beans; The Three Sisters; Wisgaak Gokpenagen: A Black Ash Basket; Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass; Maple Nation: A Citizenship Guide; The Honorable Harvest; Braiding Sweetgrass; In the Footsteps of Nanabozho:Becoming Indigenous to Place
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
The Sound of SilverbellsSitting in a Circle; Burning Cascade Head; Putting Down Roots; Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World; Old-Growth Children; Witness to the Rain; Burning Sweetgrass; Windigo Footprints; The Sacred and the Superfund; People of Corn, People of Light; Collateral Damage; Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire; Defeating Windigo; Epilogue: Returning the Gift; Notes; Sources; Acknowledgments
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