![]() But her concept of reciprocity comes from her background as a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and her training in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Kimmerer is a professor of botany, trained in universities and mainstream science. In the midst of this era of multiplying, accelerating crises, there is something emotionally stabilizing about Kimmerer’s book, and I think that can be attributed to her central concept: reciprocity. But it appears that Braiding Sweetgrass has crossed over to a wider audience. What accounts for the book’s success? Certainly, a genre exists for lyrical nature writing. First published in 2013, it is at this writing number two on the New York Times bestseller list of non-fiction books in paperback, a list it has appeared on now for 119 weeks. ![]() When they do, they may place it among the most important works of its kind, up there with Walden, say, or Silent Spring. ![]() At some point, intellectual historians will have to reckon with the phenomenal success of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. ![]()
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