anthropologists

mixed-blood woman—a woman who had been living the American dream

a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life

ordinary Mary

In her book

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World science anthropologistsAnimal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us. This major work of ecological philosophy startles the senses out of habitual ways of perception For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active