Walking in the Land of Many Gods: Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature

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201 Abram, David, 20, 21, 29–30, 49, 142, 183n35 Aho, Kevin, 3, 5, 8 Allen, Paula Gunn, 133, 177; Grandmothers of the Light, 130–31; The Sacred Hoop, 127–28 Armstrong, Jeannette, 37–38 Autobiography (Gunn), 82, 188n7, 189n13 Bacon, Francis, 23–24 Barnes, Kim, 50, 51 Basso, Keith, 33–34, 36 Being and animals, 45; defined, 12–15; and double-order forgetting, 17–18, 179, 190n24; in Dwellings, 133, 170; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 56, 63, 68; and language, 27–28, 178; and Native American philosophy, 33, 37–38, 44; and place, 35–36, 43; in Refuge, 91, 125 biophilia, 2, 41, 181n1 Bleck, Melanie, 159, 192n13 Booth, Annie, 144 Brown, Joseph Epes, 167; Teaching Spirits, 129 Buell, Lawrence, 41–42 ceremony (ritual): in Dwellings, 10, 45–46, 127– 71, 175, 178–80; and ecological restoration, 7, 48; and Heidegger, 5, 20; in Lopez, 172–73; in Native American philosophy, 127–29, 167–68; in Refuge, 104, 117, 124; in Shepard, 25 Chandler, Katherine, 130, 133, 192–93n14; “Whale Song from the Desert,” 122 Comedy of Survival, The (Meeker), 41 Coming Home to the Pleistocene (Shepard), 25–28 Consilience (Wilson), 41 co-responding: in Dwellings, 150, 152, 165; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 54; in language, 16, 28, 44, 178; and listening, 37, 45; and place, 184n36; in Refuge, 104, 125 Death of Nature, The (Merchant), 23–24 Deloria, Vine, Jr., 177–78, 186n77 Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 81 Descartes, René, 21–24 Diamond, Stanley, 176; In Search of the Primitive, 29 Discourse on Method (Descartes), 21–24 Dodd, Elizabeth, 122 Dreese, Donelle, 130, 162, 164 dwell, 3–5, 15, 20–21, 42, 44; in Dwellings, 137, 143–44, 150, 151, 158, 159, 165; and ecological restoration, 36, 47; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 48, 62, 67, 77, 79, 82, 84; and the fourfold, 8, 17, 38; and place, 35, 184n36; in Refuge, 89, 91, 96, 108, 123–25 Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World (Hogan), 5, 6, 9–10, 43, 46, 127–71, 175, 178 Eakin, Paul, 188–89n7, 189n10; Fictions in Autobiography, 49–50, 71–72 ecobiography, 88 Ecocriticism Reader, The (Glotfelty), 39 ecological restoration: in Dwellings, 158, 165; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 47–85, 86; in Jordan, 7–8, 35, 36, 47–49, 92, 179; and listening, 37; as a performative act, 9; and writing, 132 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Ray), 5, 6, 43, 47– 85, 86, 121, 131, 155, 171, 174 “Economics of a Cracker Landscape” (Watson), 51–52 index 202 index “First People,” 45–46, 128, 162, 177; Mean Spirit, 136 Huntington, Patricia, 124 Idea of Wilderness, The (Oelschlaeger), 39–41 Imagining the Earth (Elder), 42 In Search of the Primitive (Diamond), 29 “Interior and Exterior Landscapes” (Silko), 30–32 Jacobs, Harvey, 144 Jordan, William, 36, 45–46, 48–49, 75–76, 77, 92– 93, 117, 165, 179; The Sunflower Forest, 7–8, 35, 47, 63, 81–82, 86–87, 145 “Junkyard Tales” (Robertson), 52 Kindell, Carolyn, 52 Kircher, Cassandra, 89, 122 land-language, 38, 81, 91, 125, 137, 146, 150, 165, 178 “Landscape and Narrative” (Lopez), 172–74, 186n72 language, ix, 11, 20, 44; in Dwellings, 132, 135– 36, 140, 146–47, 148–49, 150–52; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 81, 82–83; and Heidegger, 13, 16–17, 27–28; and Native American philosophy, 36–38; in Refuge, 45, 97, 99, 104, 105, 111 listening: in Dwellings, 144, 148–49, 150, 152, 171; in Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 45, 53–54, 80; and healing, 173, 179–80; in Heidegger, 17, 37; in Refuge, 93, 97, 101, 104, 119, 123; in Shepard, 47 Lopez, Barry, 176, 178, 179; “Landscape and Narrative,” 172–74, 186n72 Love, Glen, Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment, 41 Love, Jennifer, 148 Lovitt, William, 12–13 Maxwell, William, So Long, See You Tomorrow, 49–50 Mean Spirit (Hogan), 136 Meeker, Joseph, The Comedy of Survival, 41 Merchant, Carolyn, 23–24 mirror-play, 15–16, 46, 179 Mitchell, Charles, 87, 92, 115 Momaday, N. Scott, 49, 179; reciprocal appropriation, 16, 125, 128, 166 Elder, John, Imagining the Earth, 42 Eliade, Mircea, 176 emergence, 33, 142, 149–50, 179 emergence tales, 32, 133, 138 emplacement. See place enframing, 3, 7, 13, 21, 35, 43–44, 82, 89, 91, 132, 170, 190n24 Environmental Imagination, The (Buell), 41–42 Evernden, Neil, 64, 190n25 expropriative appropriating, 16, 114, 125, 166, 179 Farr, Cecilia, 88 Fictions in Autobiography (Eakin), 49–50, 71–72...