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

2020

Title:	Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants / Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Author:	Kimmerer, Robin Wall, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	Second edition.
Publisher, Date:	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2020.
Description:	xx, 382 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Indigenous philosophy. Ethnoecology. Philosophy of nature. Human ecology -- Philosophy. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Human-plant relationships. Botany -- Philosophy. Potawatomi -- Social life and customs.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-380). FCDL copy purchased with a donation made in memory of Larry McNeely.
Contents:	Planting sweetgrass -- Tending sweetgrass -- Picking sweetgrass -- Braiding sweetgrass -- Burning sweetgrass -- Epilogue: Returning the gift.
ISBN:	9781571311771
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Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

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