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A review by root
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
informative
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
When I added this to my TBR, I thought it would be more inline with a botanical textbook regarding traditional medicinal plants, native species, perhaps some information on deforestation and historical and current food forests.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a mixture of memoir, folklore, botany, indigenous history and rights, and the relationship between humans and the world at large. It's a beautifully woven book that not just connects but openly states that indigenous knowledge is not separate or distinct from scientific knowledge, whole critiquing the colonial aspects of the scientific community. I learned quite a lot about trees, which I was not expecting to, given similar botanical textbooks often focus on herbs and such.
I was pleasantly surprised to find a mixture of memoir, folklore, botany, indigenous history and rights, and the relationship between humans and the world at large. It's a beautifully woven book that not just connects but openly states that indigenous knowledge is not separate or distinct from scientific knowledge, whole critiquing the colonial aspects of the scientific community. I learned quite a lot about trees, which I was not expecting to, given similar botanical textbooks often focus on herbs and such.