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Braiding Sweetgrass (Paperback, 영국판)
- 『향모를 땋으며 (보급판)』 영어원서
북아메리카 원주민 출신 식물생태학자가 과학의 길을 걸으면서 또 자신의 뿌리를 찾아가면서 겪고 느끼고 깨달은 것들을 쓴 책이다. 식물학적 지식, 원주민의 신화와 문화, 삶의 지혜와 철학, 자연을 대하는 겸손한 과학자의 언어와 태도가 고스란히 녹아 있는 이 책에서 지은이는 옛이야기와 새로운 이야기, 원주민들의 토박이 지혜와 과학의 섞어짓기를 모색한다. 조각난 인간과 자연의 관계, 자연을 착취하는 자본주의적 상품경제와 문화는 인간과 자연의 호혜성의 비밀을 밝히는 과학, 감사의 문화와 선물경제의 의미를 되살리는 원주민의 전통과 지혜 속에서 진지하게 성찰되면서 인간과 자연의 부서진 관계를 회복할 새로운 이야기로 다시 씌어진다. 엄마이자 과학자로서 또 미국의 역사에서 소외받은 인디언 부족 출신으로서 삶 속에서 느끼고 깨달았던 것들이 아름다운 문장과 이야기에 담겨 있다.
'A hymn of love to the world ... A journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
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 ways of knowledge together.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
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 ways of knowledge together.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.
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