At Home on the Earth - Becoming Native to Our Place: A Multicultural Anthology

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List of contents

Preface
Introduction, David Landis Barnhill

PART ONE: LIVING IN PLACE
Americans Native to this Land
A First American Views His Land, N. Scott Momaday
Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination, Leslie Marmon Silko

The Loss of Place
from A Native Hill, Wendell Berry
Touching the earth, bell hooks
Shadows and Vistas, John Haines

The Possibility of Place
from A Native Hill, Wendell Berry
Settliing Down, Scott Rissell Sanders
from The Place, the Region, and the Commons, Gary Snyder
The Hudon River Valley: A BioregionalStory, Thomas Berry

Native Cultures and the Search for Place
Becoming Métis, Melissa Nelson
A Sprig of Sage, terry Tempest Williams
The Gifts of Deer, Richard K. Nelson

PART TWO: PLACE TO LIVE
Homesteading
from The Writer as Alaskan: Beginnings and Reflections, John Haines

Ranching
The Subtlety of the Land, Sharon Butala
A Storm, the Cornfield, and Elk, Gretel Ehrlich
The Smooth Skull of Winter, Gretel Ehrlich

Farming
Learning to Fail, David Mas Masumoto
from A Country year: Living the Questions, Sue Hubbell

Living Between City and Country
On Willow Creek, Rick Bass
Ceremonial Time, John Hanson Mitchell
Into the Maze, Robert Finch

Urban Living
Water under American Ground: West 78th Street, Peter Sauer
from This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence, Alan Thein Durning
Nothing Lasts a Hundred Years, Richard Rodriguez
Fantsasy of a Living Future, Sarhawk

Coda
The Rediscovery of Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
The Universe Responds: Or, How I Learned We Can Have Peace on Earth, Alice Walker
Dwellings, Linda Hogan

About the author

David Landis Barnhill is Director of Environmental Studies and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Summary

Focuses on the possibilities of being at home on the earth: finding place, reinhabitation, and becoming native. This title includes essays that accentuate the links between culture and nature and speak to the loss of place and to being stewards of nature and of interdependent communities, be they in rural areas or urban neighborhoods.

Product details

• Authors: David Landis Barnhill
• Assisted by: David L. Barnhill (Editor), David Landis Barnhill (Editor), Barnhill David Landis (Editor), David Landis Barnhill (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.1999
• EAN: 9780520216846
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21684-6
• No. of pages: 341
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Interdisciplinary studies, Social impact of environmental issues, Environmentalist thought and ideology