Braiding sweetgrass : Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants

Type

Book

Authors

Robin Wall Kimmerer ( Kimmerer, Robin Wall )

ISBN 10

1571311777

ISBN 13

9781571311771

Tags

Botany, Ecology, Plants, Philosophy of nature, Nature -- Effect of human beings on, Nature, Ethnoecology, Human ecology, Traditional ecological knowledge, Human-plant relationships, Indigenous philosophy, Potawatomi -- Social life and customs, Potawatomi -- Biography, Potawatomi

Abstract

"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 oldest teachers. In this book, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as "the younger brothers of creation.""--WorldCat.org.

Description

xx, 382 pages.

Biblio Notes

Contents:
Planting sweetgrass --
Tending sweetgrass --
Picking sweetgrass --
Braiding sweetgrass --
Burning sweetgrass --
Epilogue: Returning the gift.

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