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American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study
J. Baird CallicottUniversity of North Texas
Michael P. NelsonUniversity of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

ISBN-10: 0130431214
ISBN-13:  9780130431219

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2004
Format:  Paper; 176 pp
Published:  08/14/2003
Status: Out of Stock


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For courses in anthropology, cultural geography, environmental philosophy and ethics.

Brief text focusing on environmental attitudes and practices of American Indians using the Ojibwa narrative, myths, legends, stories and rituals. Introductory essay offers theory of environmental ethics, an overview of the field of environmental ethics, and places the Ojibwa within this contemporary debate. “Part of the applied ethics series, Basic Ethics in Action, edited by Michael Boylan.”

  • Actual Ojibwa narratives—Transcribed and translated by American Indian anthropologist and told by Ojibwa people.
    • Provides students an authentic and legitimate sample of a cultural worldview.

  • Objiwa myths, legends, stories and rituals.
    • Demonstrates to students the worldview of a group, their social inclusiveness and their ethical commitments.

  • Essays introduce material—Written by authors who have solid reputations in environmental literature.
    • Provides students with an introduction to environmental ethics, cultural worldview, culture, language and cultural relativism.

  • Interpretive essay concludes narratives.—i.e., Key cognitive elements of an Ojibwa worldview, Ojibwa environmental ethics and the controversy about American Indian environmental ethics.
    • Provides students with an interpretive essay that examines the narratives.

  • Unique approach to arguing that American Indians did have an inclusive environmental ethic.
    • Provides students with a theory of ethics, an overview of the field and places the Ojibwa within the debate.

Are you interested in exploring other areas in ethics? 

 

American Indian Environmental Ethics is part of the Basic Ethics in Action series.  See below for a complete listing of the wide-ranging anthologies and brief texts that focus on a particular theme or topic within one of four areas of applied ethics. A discount is offered when two or more titles in the series are packaged together. Click on any of the titles below for more information:

 

Anchor volume

 

By Michael Boylan
© 2000 | ISBN: 0136742920
 

Business Ethics titles

 

Business, Ethics, and Sustainability:  Ethics for the Next Industrial Revolution

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Journalistic Ethics

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By Edward Spence and Brett Van Heekeren
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Environmental Ethics titles

 

By J. Baird Callicott & Michael Nelson
© 2004 | ISBN: 0130431214 
 
 
By Michael Boylan
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Medical Ethics titles

 

By Rosemarie Tong
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By Michael Boylan
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Human Rights and Global Obligations

By R. Paul Churchill
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By Seumas Miller, Peter Roberts, and Edward Spence.
© 2005 | ISBN: 0130617954

I. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY: CULTURAL WORLDVIEW AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS.

 1. What is Environmental Ethics?

 2. What is a Cultural Worldview?

 3. What is Culture?

 4. Language, Worldview, and Cultural Relativism.

 5. The Ojibwa Narratives.

II. THE NARRATIVES.

 1. The Orphans and Mashos.

 2. Clothed-in-Fur.

 3. The Woman Who Married a Beaver.

 4. The Boy that was Carried Away by a Bear.

 5. A Moose and His Offspring.

 6. Little-Image.

 7. The Person that Made Medicine.

 8. The Birth of Nänabushu.

 9. Nänabushu Swallowed by the Sturgeon.

10. Nänabushu Slays Here-of-His-Shin.

11. Nänabushu Leaves His Brother, and Also His Grandmother.

12. Nänabushu, the Sweet-brier Berries, and the Sturgeons.

13. Notes on the Mystic Rite.

III. INTERPRETIVE ESSAY: AN OJIBWA WORLDVIEW AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHIC.

1. Key Cognitive Elements of an Ojibwa Worldview.

2. Ojibwa Environmental Ethics.

3. The Controversy About American Indian Environmental Ethics.

Literature Cited.


"[T]he authors provide a fascinating cross-cultural portrait, an 'alternative habitus,' as they put it, to existing (mainly European-based) philosophical thinking. This book will be useful as a path-breaking scholarly monograph, and also as a major textbook." — Bruce E. Johansen, University of Nebraska at Omaha


J. Baird Callicott is Professor of Philosophy at -the University of North Texas, and an eminent author in the field of environmental ethics.

Michael P. Nelson is Professor of Philosophy and Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

J. Baud Callicott and Michael P. Nelson offer an engaging study of environmental ethics with particular emphasis on an ethics supported by the Ojibwa cultural worldview. Connecting environmental theory with diverse stories from Ojibwa Indians, Callicott and Nelson reveal the meaning and power of cultural worldviews as they inform ethical principles and practices, as they show that competing worldviews demonstrate the many ways "of cognitively organizing human experience." The authors begin with a concise treatment of environmental ethics, cultural worldviews, and the problem of cultural relativism, and integrate and evaluate rarely seen narratives of Ojibwa Indians on their relationship to the environment.

American Indian Environmental Ethics is the seventh book in the series, Basic Ethics in Action, edited by Michael Boylan. This series is a major new undertaking by Prentice Hall covering several areas in applied ethics, including business ethics, environmental ethics, medical ethics, and social and political ethics.

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