Research Catalog

Title

The power of the talking stick : indigenous politics and the world ecological crisis / Sharon J. Ridgeway and Peter J. Jacques.

Author

Ridgeway, Sharon J.

Publication

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2014]

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Holdings

Details

Description

ix, 200 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalization, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life support systems. The book offers an alternative, listening to indigenous leaders and others whose voices often go unheard in the din of contemporary culture. Their warning is stark, but their insights are firmly grounded in traditional knowledge and provide a way to see past the politics and rescue the Earth. -- from back cover.

Subject

• Traditional ecological knowledge
• Indigenous peoples > Politics and government
• Ethnoecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

It Is Time for Our Hearts to Be Broken -- Bretton Woods Takes Center Stage in the Carnival -- Industria Encloses the Global Commons -- Capitalism's Endless Pursuit of Profit Destroys the World's Food Supply -- A Green Theory of the State -- Earth Consciousness, Earth Action -- A World Indigenous Movement : "We Are the Watchers, We Are Witnesses".

ISBN

• 9781612052908 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1612052908 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013012879

OCLC

816032233

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library