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

By:

Kimmerer, Robin Wall

Material type: Text

9780141991955

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.8 KIM-B

Contents:

Planting sweetgrass

Tending sweetgrass

Picking sweetgrass

Braiding sweetgrass

Burning sweetgrass

Epilogue: Returning the gift

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.""

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	IIITD General Stacks	Social Science	305.8 KIM-B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013633

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Includes bibliographical references.

Planting sweetgrass

Tending sweetgrass

Picking sweetgrass

Braiding sweetgrass

Burning sweetgrass

Epilogue: Returning the gift

"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.""

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