Name: Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 4 - Persons
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Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN: 9781736862537

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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 4 - Persons

Type

Physical Book

Illustrated by

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gavin Van Horn

John Hausdoerffer

Publisher

Center for Humans and Nature

Author

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

194

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.3 x 13.2 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN13

9781736862537

Synopsis "Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 4 - Persons"

*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 4 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of interpersonal relations Which experiences expand our understanding of being human in relation to other-than-human beings? We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans--and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe, this community of life is our kin--and, for many cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. The five Kinship volumes--Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice--offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings. More than 70 contributors--including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham, and Sharon Blackie--invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and responsibility. Kinship spans the cosmos, but it is perhaps most life changing when experienced directly and personally. "Persons," Volume 4 of the Kinship series, attends to the personal--our unique experiences with particular creatures and landscapes. This includes nonhuman kin that become our allies, familiars, and teachers as we navigate a "world as full of persons, human and otherwise, all more-or-less close kin, all deserving respect," as religious studies scholar Graham Harvey puts it. The essayists and poets in the volume share a wide variety of kinship-based experiences--from Australian ecophilosopher Freya Mathews's perspective on climate-related devastation on her country's koalas, to English professor and forest therapy guide Kimberly Ruffin's reclamation of her "inner animal," to German biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber's absorption with and by lichen. Our kinships are interpersonal, and being "pried open with curiosity," as poet and hip-hop emcee Manon Voice notes in this volume, "Stir the first of many magicks." Proceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world. The Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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She is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, received the John Burroughs Medal and her writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. In 2022, Monique Gray Smith adapted Braiding Sweetgrass for young adults. Robin conducts numerous tours. In 2015, she addressed the United Nations General Assembly on the topic "Healing our relationship with nature". She holds a Bachelor's degree in Botany from SUNY ESF, a master's and a PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin, and is the author of numerous scientific papers. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York and tends both cultivated and wild gardens.

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