| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (x, 390 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388). |
| Contents |
Planting sweetgrass -- Tending sweetgrass -- Picking sweetgrass -- Braiding sweetgrass -- Burning sweetgrass -- Epilogue: Returning the gift. |
| Access |
Concurrent user level: 1 user |
| Subject |
Kimmerer, Robin Wall.
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Kimmerer, Robin Wall. |
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Indian philosophy.
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Indian philosophy. |
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Ethnoecology.
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Ethnoecology. |
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Philosophy of nature.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Human ecology -- Philosophy.
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Human ecology -- Philosophy. |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Human-plant relationships.
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Human-plant relationships. |
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Botany -- Philosophy.
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Botany -- Philosophy. |
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Botany. |
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Potawatomi Indians -- Biography.
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Potawatomi Indians. |
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Biographies.
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| Subject |
Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Potawatomi Indians -- Social life and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. |
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Indians of North America.
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Indians of North America. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Botany.
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Indians, North American. |
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Philosophy. |
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Botany. |
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Nature. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding sweetgrass. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013 1571313354 (DLC) 2013012563 (OCoLC)829743464 |
| ISBN |
9781571318718 (electronic book) |
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1571318712 (electronic book) |
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1306435528 (electronic book) |
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9781306435529 (electronic book) |
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9781571313355 (hardback) |
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1571313354 (hardback) |
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1571313567 (paperback) |
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9781571313560 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9781571313560 |
| Music No. |
MWT11783580 |
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