Braiding Sweetgrass

Botany, Potawatomi knowledge and arguments about reciprocity. Keep empirical questions and obligations toward the living world visible together.

Milkweed Editions paperback; ISBN 9781571313560

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• How does reciprocity change a description of an ecological relationship?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  Botany, Potawatomi knowledge and arguments about reciprocity. Keep empirical questions and obligations toward the living world visible together.

• How does reciprocity change a description of an ecological relationship?

  coreComplete main text; the sequential locations below cover the whole work.

  Botany, Potawatomi knowledge and arguments about reciprocity. Keep empirical questions and obligations toward the living world visible together.

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Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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