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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Contributors -- Preface / Sam Mickey ; Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature / John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Section I. Presences in the More-Than-Human World. 1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections / David Abram ; 2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes' echo. Escape.1 in 'The Place Where You Go to Listen' / Julianne Lutz Warren ; 3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community / Paul Waldau -- Section II. Thinking in Latin American Forests. 4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation / Eduardo Kohn ; 5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin ; 6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More / Thomas E. Lovejoy -- Section III. Practices from Contemporary Asian Traditions and Ecology. 7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History / Prasenjit Duara ; 8. Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing / David L. Haberman ; 9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Section IV. Storytelling: Blending Ecology and Humanities. 10. Contemplative Studies of the 'Natural' World / David Haskell ; 11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National Geographic Society's On Campus Initiative / Timothy Brown ; 12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project / Willis Jenkins ; 13. Imaginal Ecology / Brooke Williams -- Section V. Relationships of Resilience within Indigenous Lands ; 14. An Okanagan Worldview of Society / Jeannette Armstrong ; 15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community / Mark Turin ; 16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating / John Grim ; 17. Unsettling the Land: Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity / Samara Brock -- Section VI. The Weave of Earth and Cosmos. 18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age / Sean Kelly ; 19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos / Heather Eaton ; 20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos / Mitchell Thomashow -- List of Illustration -- Index -- About the team.

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"Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail - from the ecological knowledge of indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling. This anthology examines the interplay between Nature and Culture in the setting of our current age of ecological crisis, stressing the importance of addressing these ecological crises occurring around the planet through multiple perspectives. These perspectives are exemplified through diverse case studies, from a study on the significance of the birdsong of the huia (an extinct species of New Zealand wattlebird) for the Māori people, and its commodification and extinction in the aftermath of colonialism; to a study on the promotion of ecological learning through network thinking, as evinced in a range of examples that portray the basic patterns of networks - the neurological network of a brain, the mycelial network of a fungus, the Internet, and the transportation system of global society. Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing synthesizes insights from across a range of academic fields, and highlights the potential for synergy between disciplinary approaches and inquiries. This anthology is essential reading not only for researchers and students, but for anyone interested in the ways in which humans interact with the community of life on Earth, especially during this current period of environmental emergency."--Publisher's website.

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