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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
2024·128 pages
A lyrical meditation on gift economies and reciprocity, using the serviceberry as a model for abundance, gratitude, and mutual flourishing.
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A lyrical meditation on gift economies and reciprocity, using the serviceberry as a model for abundance, gratitude, and mutual flourishing.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world. As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reima...
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Indigenous spiritual themes of gratitude and reciprocity with nature
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Central critique of capitalist scarcity; advocates gift economy and reciprocity
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Brief references to harm from scarcity-based economic systems
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