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In this important book, the author uses native testimony and native texts to show how 'animal masters' and natural gardening protect the land from overuse, how living space is patterned, how human reproduction is controlled, and how the sun is viewed as the overlord of a closed energy system from which nothing may be removed without 'payment.'
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 7 Up-Bierhorst looks at how various Native peoples transmit environmental wisdom and knowledge through their myths, stories, parables, and proverbs. Broadly divided into five parts covering personality, kinship, restraint, death, and renewal, the author ranges up and down the Americas drawing parallels from the traditions of numerous cultures. The relationships between animals and humans, humans and the earth, and plants and humans are shown in a variety of forms. There is a wealth of information here that goes well beyond what has filtered through to the general public in the forms of Chief Sealth's ``enhanced'' speech or 30-second commercials on television. What becomes clear is that this is not a subject treated lightly by Native Americans, and that while there is no single ``Indian'' philosophy concerning the environment, there is a shared awareness of the inseparable relationship between all human beings and all other forms of creation. Bierhorst does an admirable job of allowing these people to speak for themselves without trying to interpret for them. Sources and an extensive bibliography allow readers to delve more deeply into this topic. A solid choice for science collections and where interest in Native Americans or the environment is strong.-Lisa Mitten, University of Pittsburgh, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Bierhorst's intention in this scholarly investigation of ideas about humankind's relationship to land is to show how 'human thought is linked across cultures' and to find roots for ideas that might illuminate the dilemmas of contemporary environmentalists. Population control, initiation rites, family roles, the views of Earth as Mother, and the essential nature of the universe are among many topics considered. Bib., ind. From HORN BOOK 1994, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
From a master historian, folklorist, and anthropologist, a lucid, densely fact-filled argument for Native Americans' theories and practices of preserving the environment. To prove that they have a sophisticated system of ecology (rather than an expedient new gospel in aid of acquiring government funds), Bierhorst offers examples from both North and South American cultures and a sparkling array of parables and proverbs whose importance, he says, has been largely ignored. Chapters on personality, kinship, restraint, death, and renewal are broken into sections such as ""The Earth as Mother""; a rich stew of citations from a dozen or more tribal sources illumines each. The entwined lives of plants, animals, and humans are presented as dependent relationships with mythic overtones guiding the use of resources. A very fine book, but difficult: of most interest to adults. Forty pages of notes and bibliography. Index. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 7-12. Looking at motifs running through the mythologies and folklore of many indigenous cultures of North and South America, Bierhorst examines Native American belief systems as they relate to a variety of topics, including human relationships with other animal and plant species; environmental protective practices, such as crop rotation and nature sanctuaries; and the varieties of birth control and the way sexual abstinence is practiced in many native cultures. The book's primary value is the author's exploration of mythologic and folkloric patterns and the tracking through many cultures of similar images, such as the weeping woman, the "dangerous woman who lives apart from the human community, haunting woods, swamps, caves or riverbanks." This study of traditional attitudes toward the environment provides a view that man did "not occupy a special place . . . [and] was only a part of everything that was called the world." Bierhorst does not suggest that modern society go back to Native American conservation practices and relationship with the environment. His premise, however, is that the study of Native American ideologies and traditions offers young readers a glimpse into belief systems that revere life in all its forms. ~--Merri Monks