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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 4 - Persons (Paperback)
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 4 - Persons (Paperback)
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*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.
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