...Craig Gerlach Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us About Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality . Gary Holthaus . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews But evenfromherperspectiveo,ne majorpointis missingR. ecognizing thatscienceis...

...David D. Vail Abstract This article examines the conflicts over knowledge, expertise, spiritual promises, and agroecological realities that collided in the construction of an early-1900s rural water conservation district in Cache Valley, Utah. Out of these tensions emerged a field-based view...

...TODD H. LEEDY Abstract Both missionaries and government policymakers in colonial Zimbabwe consciously identified agriculture as an important avenue in establishing broader paradigms of explanation. Missionary promotion of new farming practices inevitably challenged the existing spiritual landscape...

... populations and food stores, and developing innovative political confederacies to harness the transformative and spiritual power of the Three Sisters. Through an examination of traditional ecological knowledge—what Gregory Cajete calls the “original instructions for how to care for and relate to the land...

... systems for over one thousand years. In dry farmed fields fed by violent monsoon storms and in terraced gardens irrigated by ancestral springs, Hopi agriculturalists perfected a system of spiritual and physical subsistence that produced the majority of food consumed in Hopi communities. During...

... now survives on faith, as it once survived on agriculture, and draws spiritual, if not actual sustenance from the land it hopes someday to reclaim. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 2 Sabine Ulibarri , " Preface ," in Abuelitos: Stories of the Río Puerco...

... nature relied not primarily on economics, science, or politics, but on a Christian theology and spirituality of salvation. 262 2016 Book Reviews Berry argues that when Progressive-era groups like the Mountaineers Club, the sierra Club, and the Mazamas advocated outdoor recreation as a source of salvific...

..., 2003. This book, through a series of eighteen personal essays, explores the spiritual meanings that people attach to place. Style and theme give the book a loose sense of unity. All the authors have chosen to write in the first person. The majority deal with Colorado's wild, rural, or small town...

... the Union would simply save the flawed Constitution. Slowly, she became a supporter of women's rights,demanding thatwomen be allowed tomake choices and not be fully absorbed into their husband's lives. Her spiritual quest led her to inquire about spiritualism and other marginal religious ideas. Brakebill...

... and Georgia, where descendants of enslaved Africans preserved a Creole language, agricultural technologies, and cultural and spiritual traditions from West and West Central Africa. These communities have celebrated their distinctiveness within African-American and Lowcountry culture and have been fighting...

... personal essays, explores the spiritual meanings that people attach to place. Style and theme give the book a loose sense of unity. All the authors have chosen to write in the first person. The majority deal with Colorado's wild, rural, or small town environments. For the most part, this is a quiet...

... maps in his fine-grained analysis of spatial practices. Great Suns, hereditary rulers of the Natchez chiefdom, legitimated their authority by drawing spiritual power from a sacred landscape centered on the temple mound and its plaza in the Natchez Grand Village. Rituals performed there renewed Natchez...

... be allowed tomake choices and not be fully absorbed into their husband's lives. Her spiritual quest led her to inquire about spiritualism and other marginal religious ideas. Brakebill gives almost no recognition to Celestia Colby's published es says on farm and dairy management. Except for her complaints...

... technologies, and cultural and spiritual traditions from West and West Central Africa. These communities have celebrated their distinctiveness within African-American and Lowcountry culture and have been fighting to retain their land and traditions. Who are the Gullah/ Geechee, really? How did...

... mythology of the agrarian ideal that lifted up Jeffersonian principles of personal independence, spiritual fulfillment, and the moral purity of rural life. it also included the new social questions raised by the emerging women s rights movements in labor, suffrage, and education that sought to classify...

... and the disconnect between them in Vance s words, to explain what happens in the lives of the poor and the psychological impact that spiritual and material poverty has on their children (2). The phrasing here is important, and the echoes of Michael Harrington s The Other America (Macmillan, 1962) clear: poverty...

...” of the romantics. As he put it, “Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.” The spiritual apprehension and aesthetic appreciation of the natural world are not reducible to masks that obscure oppression, though they have long been used to that end. They can also be paths to mourning and lament...

... experiencing stigmatization and marginalization.32 Essentially, resource control, if taken to the extreme, can become a tool to minimize risk for the privileged and maximize it for the disenfranchised. The third and final key point indicates the importance of the symbolic and spiritual valuation of resources...

...,as dimmedmemoriesoftheemotionaland spiritual intimacythatpeopleonce enjoyedwithbothdomesticand wildspecies.We too oftenforgetthedominantroleofanimalimagesintheprehistoridcawn ofartistiecxpressiont,heprofoundmysteriefsormerlayssociatedwithblood sacrificet,herivetingqualityofanimalcombat,and theanimalhumorand folkloreonce...

... Narratives. Edited byTerriM. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw.Norman:Universityof Oklahoma Press,2007.280 pp29.95,hardback,ISBN 978-08061-3845-9. WomenWhoPioneeredOklahomawasclearlya laboroflovefortheeditors. Drivenby "an addictivecuriosityabout womenwhowere [their]spiritual and biologicalgrandmothersl,i...