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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 Reflections

11

David Abram

2.

Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes’ echoEscape.1 in ‘The Place Where You Go to Listen’

19

Julianne Lutz Warren

3.

Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community

19

Paul Waldau

Section II: Thinking in Latin American Forests

53

4.

Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation

55

Eduardo Kohn

5.

Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism

67

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

6.

The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More

75

Thomas E. Lovejoy

Section III: Practices from Contemporary Asian Traditions and Ecology

83

7.

Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History

85

Prasenjit Duara

8.

Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing

101

David L. Haberman

9.

Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human

109

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 Geographic Society’s On Campus Initiative

133

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 Lands

161

14.

An Okanogan Worldview of Society

163

Jeannette Armstrong

15.

Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community

171

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

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.