Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality

Scientific evidence has made it abundantly clear that the world's population can no longer continue its present rate of consuming and despoiling the planet's limited natural resources. Scholars, activists, politicians, and citizens worldwide are promoting the idea of sustainability, or systems and practices of living that allow a community to maintain itself indefinitely. Despite increased interest in sustainability, its popularity alone is insufficient to shift our culture and society toward mo

Author: Gary Holthaus
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 02/22/2013
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780813141084
ISBN10: 0813141087
BISAC Categories:
- House & Home | Sustainable Living
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies

About the Author

Gary Holthaus is the author of several books, including From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture and Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West.

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