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Title

A people's ecology : explorations in sustainable living / edited by Gregory Cajete.

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cajete, Gregory, 1952-

Description

xii, 283 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

This book presents a tapestry of perspectives on food and the interplay of health, cultural ecology, and environment, which are the fabric and foundation of all sustainable living It offers personal stories, documented information, traditional understandings, and speculations on future directions. Each contribution calls on us to reclaim our human heritage of "caring for our home fires" -- a metaphor that can inspire the revitalisation of our connections to the earth, all living things, and each other. The writers examine the underlying ecology of sustainable living rooted in the historical traditions, environmental practices, and a sense of place of peoples of the Southwest; and they describe the impact that disruption of this way of life continues to have on health, well-being, communal identity. Drawing on an indigenous paradigm of "healthy environment, healthy culture, healthy people," this book explores possibilities of applying the principles of sustainable living in both traditional and non-traditional communities.

Subjects

• Sustainable development > Southwest, New
• Sustainable agriculture > Southwest, New
• Food habits > Southwest, New
• Human ecology > Southwest, New
• Pueblo Indians > Agriculture
• Pueblo Indians > Nutrition
• Pueblo Indians > Food

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Look to the mountain" : reflections on indigenous ecology / Gregory Cajete -- Nourishing gifts : native and traditional foods of the southwestern Pueblos / Brett M. Bakker -- "It is time to plant" : the real green revolution / Kenny Ausubel -- Indigenous foods, indigenous health : a Pueblo perspective / Gregory Cajete -- Traditional diet and health in northwestern Mexico / Enrique Salmon -- A Navajo's meditations on food and culture / Lawrence Shorty -- Reflections of a Native American farmer / Clayton Brascoupe -- Daybreak Farm and Food Project seeks revitalization of white corn usage / Yvonne Dion-Buffalo and John Mohawk -- Rituals and practices of traditional folk medicine in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico / Eliseo Torres -- Curanderismo as holistic medicine / Gilbert Arizaga -- Permaculture as a way of seeing and acting in the world / Joel Glanzberg -- Renaissance of ancient building practices / Paula Baker -- Natural foods retailers as activists for sustainable lifestyles / John Macker.

ISBN

1574160281

LCCN

^^^99024062^

OCLC

• 41035443
• SCSB-11673015

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library