What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?

Book Overview

As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage--to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be remembered? What traditions do I want to continue? What cycles do I want to break? What new systems do I want to initiate for those yet-to-be-born? How do we endure? Published in association with the Center for Humans and Nature and interweaving essays, interviews, and poetry, this book brings together a thoughtful community of Indigenous and other voices--including Linda Hogan, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Vandana Shiva, Robin Kimmerer, and Wes Jackson--to explore what we want to give to our descendants. It is an offering to teachers who have come before and to those who will follow, a tool for healing our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with our most powerful ancestors--the lands and waters that give and sustain all life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022677726X
• ISBN13: 9780226777269
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"