Category Archives: What I’m reading
Wildly unrealistic summer reading plans
Yeah that’s right. It’s just not going to happen. And frankly, I made myself stop pulling books I’ve not yet read from the shelf and adding them to the stack, but there are more I’d like to be there, and … Continue reading
The Art of Not Grading
I’ve written here before that I do occasionally manage some recreational reading, though based on the series of posts centered on books I’ve assigned for class, and the relative dearth of those I’ve picked up for kicks, that assertion may … Continue reading
Yellow Datsuns
When I ran us through the reading schedule on the first day of my American Wilderness class, I initially stated that our last two books of the semester would be “lighter reading,” before I thought better of it, and settled … Continue reading
Rewilding nature and the classroom
Yeah yeah, I’ve been remiss in my postings, and haven’t lately posted much on what we’re reading for American Wilderness. But here we are: two more. We’ve talked quite a bit throughout the semester about the fact that nowhere is … Continue reading
Science, myth, and Native American knowledge
Finished this up over the weekend. Deloria is always a good read, and whether or not you agree with what he has to say, you can’t say he’s not provocative. To sum this one up: “We do not know the … Continue reading
Removing Indians to create National Parks
Although most of our readings for American Wilderness so far have focused on Euroamerican conceptions/constructions, we’ve inevitably discussed Native Americans some in the midst of our conversations (often prefaced with something like “I know Sellers wants us to say something … Continue reading
The book that inspired it all…
So this is the genesis of the American Wilderness class. I’d read Melanie Perreault’s essay in here after Jan Golinski recommended it to me over lunch at The Huntington, and ultimately cited both their work in my own scholarship. I … Continue reading
Up next in American Wilderness…
The quintessential study, now a classic. Interesting Preface to the Fourth Edition of a book first published in 1967, an intellectual history of American ideas about wilderness from their European roots to an epilogue considering the contemporary “ethical and biocentric … Continue reading
Rec reading
I also occasionally manage to read for fun. I recently finished Hugh Howey’s marvelous trilogy (Wool, Shift, Dust), and it gave just enough glimpses of story lines beyond his that I may eventually read some of the spin-offs (The Mongoliad … Continue reading
Native Grounds
Iroquoia (think upstate New York) and the Arkansas Valley may seem an unlikely pairing, but having spent previous weeks talking about native North America and early contacts with Europeans, this week we are moving into a colonial era in … Continue reading
