Research Catalog

Title

Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 390 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "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"--
• "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"--

Subject

• Kimmerer, Robin Wall
• Indian philosophy
• 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
• SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies
• NATURE > Essays
• NATURE > Plants > General
• Indigenous peoples > Ecology
• Potawatomi Indians

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Autobiographies.

Note

• Subtitle from dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).

Contents

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

Call Number

JFD 13-6178

ISBN

• 9781571313355
• 1571313354

LCCN

2013012563

OCLC

829743464

Author

Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.

Title

Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-388).

Research Call Number

JFD 13-6178