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Living Earth Community ICKEY Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing , T EDITED by SAM MICKEY, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, and JOHN GRIM UCKER M Living Earth Community ICKEY Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing , T EDITED BY SAM MICKEY, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, AND JOHN GRIM UCKER If you are looking for reasons to believe that humans can fi nd a way through the unfolding catastrophe, this is your book, your hope, your answer. , — Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising and Wild Comfort AND Why are we in such a predicament? The contributors to this volume trace our discontents to a kind of G cultural amnesia. In our rush to progress, we have forgot en deeper sources of wisdom, and with it the calm awareness that humankind is a part of the larger community of life in the unfolding cosmic story. RIM We’ve been looking for meaning, as it were, in all the wrong places. From varied perspect ves, the ( essays here shed the bright light of remembrance and reverence. EDS — David Orr, author of Hope is an Imperat ve, Down to the Wire, and Ecological Literacy ) L This book is a celebra� on of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invita� on to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innova� ve, informa� ve, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology brings together scholars and educators across the sciences and humani� es, in a collabora� ve eff ort to illuminate the diff erent ways of being in the world and the diff erent kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of indigenous communi� es, to the scien� fi c knowledge of a biologist, and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling. IVING This anthology examines the interplay between Nature and Culture in the se� ng of our current age of ecological crisis, stressing the importance of addressing these ecological crises occurring around the planet through mul� ple perspec� ves. These perspec� ves are E exemplifi ed through diverse case studies – from the poli� cal and ethical implica� ons of ARTH thinking with forests, to the capacity of storytelling to mo� vate ac� on, to the worldview of the Indigenous Okanogan community in Bri� sh Columbia. C Living Earth Community is essen� al reading not only for researchers and students, but OMMUNITY for anyone interested in the ways humans interact with the community of life on Earth, especially during this current period of environmental emergency. As with all Open Book publica� ons, this en� re book is available to read for free on the publisher’s website. Printed and digital edi� ons, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found at www.openbookpublishers.com Living Earth Community Cover image: ‘Feathers and Fins’ (2014) by Nancy Earle, all rights reserved. Cover design: Anna Gat . Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing book eebook and OA edi� ons also available EDITED BY OPEN ACCESS SAM MICKEY, MARY EVELYN TUCKER, AND JOHN GRIM www.openbookpublishers.com OBP To access digital resources including: blog posts videos online appendices and to purchase copies of this book in: hardback paperback ebook editions Go to: htps://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1086 Open Book Publishers is a non-proft independent initiative. We rely on sales and donations to continue publishing high-quality academic works. LIVING EARTH COMMUNITY Living Earth Community Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing Edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim https://www.openbookpublishers.com © 2020 Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapters’ authors. 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Attribution should include the following information: Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim, eds, Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2020), https://doi. org/10.11647/OBP.0186 In order to access detailed and updated information on the license, please visit, https:// doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0186#copyright Further details about CC BY licenses are available at, https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/ All external links were active at the time of publication unless otherwise stated and have been archived via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web Updated digital material and resources associated with this volume are available at https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0186#resources Every efort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notifcation is made to the publisher. ISBN Paperback: 978-1-78374-803-7 ISBN Hardback: 978-1-78374-804-4 ISBN Digital (PDF): 978-1-78374-805-1 ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 978-1-78374-806-8 ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 978-1-78374-807-5 ISBN XML: 978-1-78374-808-2 DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0186 Cover image: Feathers and Fins (2014) by Nancy Earle, all rights reserved. Cover design: Anna Gatti. Contents Acknowledgments ix Notes on the Contributors xiii Preface xxvii Sam Mickey Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature 1 John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker Section I: Presences in the More-Than-Human World 9 1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some 11 Refections David Abram 2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes’ echoEscape.1 in ‘The 19 Place Where You Go to Listen’ Julianne Lutz Warren 3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a 19 Living Earth Community Paul Waldau Section II: Thinking in Latin American Forests 53 4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward 55 an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation Eduardo Kohn 5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism 67 Frédérique Apfel-Marglin 6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More 75 Thomas E. Lovejoy vi Living Earth Community Section III: Practices from Contemporary Asian Traditions 83 and Ecology 7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of 85 History Prasenjit Duara 8. Afectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing 101 David L. Haberman 9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and 109 the Role of the Human Mary Evelyn Tucker Section IV: Storytelling: Blending Ecology and Humanities 121 10. Contemplative Studies of the ‘Natural’ World 123 David Haskell 11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National 133 Geographic Society’s On Campus Initiative Timothy Brown 12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project 141 Willis Jenkins 13. Imaginal Ecology 153 Brooke Williams Section V: Relationships of Resilience within Indigenous 161 Lands 14. An Okanogan Worldview of Society 163 Jeannette Armstrong 15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth 171 Community Mark Turin 16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating 185 John Grim 17. Land, Indigeneity, and Hybrid Ontologies 193 Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove Contents vii Section VI: The Weave of Earth and Cosmos 203 18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age 205 Sean Kelly 19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos 217 Heather Eaton 20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos 229 Mitchell Thomashow List of Illustrations 235 Index 237 Fig. A1 Garden Aerial. Oak Springs Garden Foundation House, Upperville, Virgina. Photograph by Max Smith (2018), CC BY. Acknowledgments This book, like every other book ever written, is dependent in many ways on the living, breathing Earth. As the editors of this book, we want to acknowledge the kinship, nourishment, shelter, companionship, and inspiration provided by the living Earth community. Without that fgurative and quite literal support, this book would not exist. Along with gratitude for our planetary home, we gratefully acknowledge all of those who have been part of this book project directly or indirectly. Many thanks are owed to each of the contributors for their thoughtful engagement in this collaborative project. It was a privilege and a pleasure to facilitate the gathering of such profoundly thoughtful, sensitive, and visionary people in person, and to incorporate their contributions into a single volume. This book is based on a unique workshop that took place at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia in October of 2018. In this beautiful setting, between delicious meals and walks on the grounds, the participants shared their creative ideas in a synergy that was deeply felt by all. From that beautiful Virginia land, cultivated for so many decades by Bunny and Paul Mellon, these ideas took diferent shapes and forms in lively dialogue. Old friendships were renewed, and new friendships were formed. The land wove us into itself and held us in a place of awe and wonder. The workshop was organized by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim along with Peter Crane, their former Dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the current President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. As a paleobotanist, Peter has done remarkable work uncovering fower, plant, and seed fossils embedded in deep time. We were assisted at Oak Spring by Peter’s wife, Elinor Crane, and especially by the dedicated preparation of program ofcer, Marguerite Hardin.
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