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What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?
Taschenbuch von Brooke Parry Hecht (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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This book "challenges our relationship to the environment and to each other, not only now but across generations. It is an important question for our time, when communities have become fragmented by a global consumer society, when our selves have become isolated in a competitive and technology-driven economy, and when our spiritual, social, and ecological impacts on human and other-than-human beings extend farther than ever imagined due to globalization and climate change. Through interviews and poetic snapshots into the experience of Indigenous people and others, this book demands that the reader think about how contemporary concerns oblige us to see ourselves as someone's future ancestor and, in turn, creates for the reader a different way of looking at his or her traditions and self"--
This book "challenges our relationship to the environment and to each other, not only now but across generations. It is an important question for our time, when communities have become fragmented by a global consumer society, when our selves have become isolated in a competitive and technology-driven economy, and when our spiritual, social, and ecological impacts on human and other-than-human beings extend farther than ever imagined due to globalization and climate change. Through interviews and poetic snapshots into the experience of Indigenous people and others, this book demands that the reader think about how contemporary concerns oblige us to see ourselves as someone's future ancestor and, in turn, creates for the reader a different way of looking at his or her traditions and self"--
Über den Autor
John Hausdoerffer is dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University. Most recently, he is coeditor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place. For more information, visit [...] He lives in living in Gunnison, CO. Brooke Parry Hecht is president of the Center for Humans and Nature at [...] Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]) is professor of Indigenous sustainability at Arizona State University and president of the Cultural Conservancy, a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. Most recently, she is coeditor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Katherine Kassouf Cummings serves as managing editor at the Center for Humans and Nature and leads Questions for a Resilient Future.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226777436
ISBN-10: 022677743X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Hecht, Brooke Parry
Hausdoerffer, John
Cummings, Katherine Kassouf
Nelson, Melissa K.
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 227 x 149 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Brooke Parry Hecht (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 119477256
Über den Autor
John Hausdoerffer is dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University. Most recently, he is coeditor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place. For more information, visit [...] He lives in living in Gunnison, CO. Brooke Parry Hecht is president of the Center for Humans and Nature at [...] Melissa K. Nelson (Anishinaabe/Métis [Turtle Mountain Chippewa]) is professor of Indigenous sustainability at Arizona State University and president of the Cultural Conservancy, a Native-led Indigenous rights organization. Most recently, she is coeditor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Katherine Kassouf Cummings serves as managing editor at the Center for Humans and Nature and leads Questions for a Resilient Future.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226777436
ISBN-10: 022677743X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Hecht, Brooke Parry
Hausdoerffer, John
Cummings, Katherine Kassouf
Nelson, Melissa K.
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 227 x 149 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Brooke Parry Hecht (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2021
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 119477256
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