Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

La meravigliosa trama del tutto: Saggezza indigena, conoscenza scientifica e gli insegnamenti delle piante by Robin Wall Kimmerer

19 reviews

matcha_cat's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Child abuse, Blood, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

vereisnthere's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, and Deportation

turidt's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Deportation

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit

bashsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.25

I buddy-read Braiding Sweetgrass with my dear and beloved friend @emakay... which means I've already commented on it extensively in a private setting. So I will do my best to summarize my thoughts, but apologies if this review reads a little more scattershot than some of my others.

All-in-all, Braiding Sweetgrass is a fantastic personal essay collection about nature, culture, and our interpersonal (person here including nonhumans!) connections. I can understand perfectly why it is so popular and widely recommended. My friend and I listened the audiobook, so we not only appreciated the descriptions as written, but also, Kimmerer's steady and soothing voice as she read through the text she so lovingly crafted. My favorite takeaways from Braiding Sweetgrass were: the obvious and unabashed love Kimmerer has for the natural world, her willingness to combine traditional wisdom and hard science, her gentle encouragement to consider the world from a different perspective (especially that of a plant or an animal), and her fierce love and appreciate for her Potawatomi culture and heritage.  I was also deeply compelled by her rumination on how to become indigenous to place and what obligations we have to others (both human and not). What I liked less was relatively minor by comparison; I thought she was a little uncomfortably committed to gender roles as 'natural' from time to time, and I wished that she came out and actually expanded on her issues with 'technology' rather than taking vague pot-shots at it here and there. Adjacently, my friend pointed out that the anecdote about an ex's attempted suicide in his car to make a point about human disconnectedness with nature was... messy, at best. But those were small moments, and with a book as long and expansive as this one, there were bound to be hangups here and there. Overall, fantastic book, and I highly recommend listening to the audiobook. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Cultural appropriation

Graphic descriptions of environmental disasters, pollution, and other eco-destructive activities.

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.25

The way the author talks about their connection to nature is truly evocative and beautiful.  There’s a familial component to it that, at first, was comforting in that you can find a community all around you if you would but care to look.  But then it began to center motherhood and the assumption that if female, you too will be a mother and experience these things, which was unfortunate.  It became a repetitive narrative that dragged itself to the finish line.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Classism

the_reading_wren's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Genuinely a life-changing book. Inspires me and shows me new way for me to return to studying and practicing ecology. 

I highly recommend the audiobook because it is read wonderfully by the author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, Sexual content, Slavery, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

achingallover's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Grief, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

hailstorm3812's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is so so good. I don't have the words to describe it. It is such a good blend of information and heart. She knows exactly when to pull from her degree, her heritage, and her lived experience. It is such a perspective shifter of a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Colonisation

Moderate: Cultural appropriation

Minor: Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, and War

lizziaha's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring

5.0

This book made me deeply reflect on my own life and the ways that I interact with nature. I hope it changed me for the better. I also was pleasantly surprised to see how narrative-based this book was. It made the read faster and more interesting. And Kimmerer’s language is so beautiful, while maintaining a simplicity that kept everything easy to understand. Especially to hear it in her own voice, I felt like I was floating along these words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Racism, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Minor: Fire/Fire injury