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100 1 _aKimmerer, Robin Wall
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245 1 0 _aBraiding sweetgrass :
_bindigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants /
_cRobin Wall Kimmerer.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aMinneapolis, Minnesota :
_bMilkweed Editions,
_c2013.
300 _ax, 390 pages ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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500 _aSubtitle from dust jacket.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).
505 0 _aPlanting sweetgrass -- Tending sweetgrass -- Picking sweetgrass -- Braiding sweetgrass -- Burning sweetgrass -- Epilogue : returning the gift.
520 2 _a"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 oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer 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 acknowledgement 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 2 _a"As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature. The woven essays that construct this book bring people back into conversation with all that is green and growing; a universe that never stopped speaking to us, even when we forgot how to listen"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aKimmerer, Robin Wall.
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650 0 _aEthnoecology
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650 0 _aPhilosophy of nature.
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650 0 _aHuman-plant relationships.
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650 0 _aBotany
_xPhilosophy.
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650 0 _aPotawatomi Indians
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650 0 _aPotawatomi Indians
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650 0 _aIndigenous crops
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