Description
A meditation by an award-winning historian calls for a new way of looking at the natural world and our place in it while boldly challenging the assumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history and time. "In the Spirit of the Earth" is a provocative account of how the hunter-gatherer image of nature was lost with devastating consequences for the environment and the human spirit.
As we prepare to count a new millennium, an award-winning historian questions the very nature of "historical time."
About the Author
Calvin Luther Martin lives and writes in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. His book Keepers of the Game: Indian Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade received the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. His new book, The Way of the Human Being, is due out in 1999.
Reviews
It just may be a sign that the wind is turning when a Rutgersprofessor of history writes a book (and gets it published)debunking historical time and civilization... Martin finds, inneolithic time consciousness, a key ingredient in the control ofthe natural world, and locates the 'ideological origins of humanbondage' in animal domestication. Alternative Press Review Martin has given us a new map for imagining the world around us and our place in it. Hungry Mind Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780801847097
Author Calvin Luther Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 272g
As we prepare to count a new millennium, an award-winning historian questions the very nature of "historical time."
About the Author
Calvin Luther Martin lives and writes in the Adirondacks in upstate New York. His book Keepers of the Game: Indian Animal Relationships and the Fur Trade received the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award. His new book, The Way of the Human Being, is due out in 1999.
Reviews
It just may be a sign that the wind is turning when a Rutgersprofessor of history writes a book (and gets it published)debunking historical time and civilization... Martin finds, inneolithic time consciousness, a key ingredient in the control ofthe natural world, and locates the 'ideological origins of humanbondage' in animal domestication. Alternative Press Review Martin has given us a new map for imagining the world around us and our place in it. Hungry Mind Review
Book Information
ISBN 9780801847097
Author Calvin Luther Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 272g
