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Quote: “You wouldn’t harm what gives you love” (Kimmerer). In the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Kimmerer, we get a glimpse of the connection indigenous people have with their land. Indigenous people view the land at which they reside, as something that you also must give from what you take, opposed to western ways of […]
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Rebecca Daniel Close Reading: Braiding Sweetgrass “People of Corn, People of Light” Pg 343 After recounting a story of the creation of the perfect people by the gods and their failures before creating the perfect people, of corn instead of mud, wood, or light, our author ponders on the use of corn and what […]
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For the close reading there were a variety of different media to decide upon but, for the one that I believed fit perfectly based on the previous discussions that had taken place during class hours, I believed the work of Shane O’Mara chapter 6. A balm for body dreaming in his novel In praise of […]
Close Reading- Mina Boyd
Mina Boyd COLT 360 Professor Lejeune June 7, 2022 Close Reading “Homeless in the ‘Global Village’” by Vandana Shiva For this close reading I will be looking at an excerpt from Vandana Shiva’s chapter “Homeless in the ‘Global Village’” in her book “Ecofeminism”. This chapter of her book distinguishes between two classes of homelessness that […]
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For this close reading I chose to examine two passage from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer in the Chapter Burning Cascade. This book examines the intersection of indigenous knowledge and scientific studies. Most of the chapters begin with an indigenous story, one that explains some natural phenomenon which in the case of this excerpt […]
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“Historically, the rise of capitalism eroded the subsistence-based farm and city work-shop in which production was oriented towards use values and men and women were economic partners. The result was a capitalistic economy dominated by men and a domestic sphere in which women’s labor in the home was unpaid and subordinate to men’s labor in […]
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“The earth, that first among good mothers, gives us the gift we cannot provide ourselves. I hadn’t realized that I had come to the lake and said feed me, but my empty heart was fed. I had a good mother. She gives what we need without being asked. I wonder if she gets tired, old […]
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“Umbilicaria: The Belly Button of the World” Pg. 268-269 For my close reading I have selected an excerpt from Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. I chose to use this text as I feel her writing is suited well to this exercise. Her use of literary […]
Sean Crysler Close Reading – “An Offering”
Sean Crysler Close Reading – “An Offering” Traditions are a staple of all forms of groups, cultures, and societies that can manifest in a myriad of ways and change in meaning or significance as the time passes. This phenomenon is explored and dissected thoroughly in the chapter “An Offering” from the book Braiding Sweetgrass by […]