Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, 5-Volume Set (Van Horn Gavin)(Paperback)

*2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment*2022 Nautilus Book Award Special Honors as Best of AnthologyFor readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and The OverstoryFrom The Center for Humans and Nature, a collection in five volumes: essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity that highlight the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beingsWe live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans—and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe, this community of life is our kin—and, for many cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship.Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. More than 70 contributors—including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. Drew Lanham, and Sharon Blackie—invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human world as worthy of our response and responsibility. These diverse voices render a wide range of possibilities for becoming better kin.Contents:Planet: What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship?Place: To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth’s bioregions reinvigorate a sense
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