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samantha1960's review
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Has a few insightful perspectives, but overall struggled to enjoy the book. Felt repetitive and like an excuse for the authors to promote themselves.
dajka8's review
4.0
An interesting read with a lot of insights and ways to change the way we intrinsically think and process the world around us. One caveat for me was that the two author’s interpretations of the precepts were very much based on their own experiences, which is still useful and exemplified how all authors always write from their own experience and nothing is written as “official” text, but as beautifully official it is to one’s own life.
seeceeread's review against another edition
The worldview that considers nature intelligent and living, and the worldview that considers nature otherwise, are the only two essential worldviews.
Mutual dependence. Respect for gender role fluidity. Truthfulness. Generosity. Noninterference. Circular time. For each precept, the authors present a key quote from an Indigenous person + contextualizing biosketch. They follow with loose citations, curiosity-driven exchanges and anecdotes.
This reads like two experts developing a syllabus and thoughtfully chatting about the ways their ideas fit together, and will come up in another class or seminar (aka chapter). It would be easy to create another reading list from the nuggets here. [And like a lot of academics, these two reference their books 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺.]
The big picture ideas kind of washed over me until the authors offered illustrative stories and personal examples. I wonder what would happen if a journalist adapted this and pushed harder into the "application" and "exemplar" space.
Finally, I like that there are some references to Indigenous people beyond the Americas and Oceania ... but I'm beyond ready for more about Indigeneity in Africa and Asia.
rutt's review
5.0
i loved listening to this audiobook -- it really was a conversation between the two authors. now im also looking forward to going through a hard copy of the text for referencing.