Thinking Like a Watershed

Voices from the West

By: Jack Loeffler (Editor), Celestia Loeffler (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 October 2012

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Thinking Like a Watershed points our understanding of our relationship to the land in new directions. It is shaped by the bioregional visions of the great explorer John Wesley Powell, who articulated the notion that the arid American West should be seen as a mosaic of watersheds, and the pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold, who put forward the concept of bringing conscience to bear within the realm of "the land ethic."

Produced in conjunction with the documentary radio series entitled Watersheds as Commons, this book comprises essays and interviews from a diverse group of southwesterners including members of Tewa, Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Navajo, Hispano, and Anglo cultures. Their varied cultural perspectives are shaped by consciousness and resilience through having successfully endured the aridity and harshness of southwestern environments over time.

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"In this book, [Loeffler] has created a nexus where he and the people whom he works with can express the practical and symbolic importance of water in the western United States. Thinking Like a Watershed is a model for those of us working toward collaborative ethnographies and shared histories."--Journal of American Folklore

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Thinking Like a Watershed: Introduction	p. 1
Pueblo Watersheds: Places, Cycles, and Life	p. 27
Connected By Earth: Metaphors from Hopi Tutskwa	p. 45
"Don't You Let that Deal go Down": Navajo Water Rights and the Black Mesa Struggle	p. 67
Politics of the Colorado River with Stewart Udall	p. 91
Applying Navajo Tradition to the Modern World	p. 105
Tohono O'odham Culture: Embracing Traditional Wisdom	p. 133
La Cuenca Y La Querencia: The Watershed and the Sense of Place in the Merced and Acequia Landscape	p. 151
Ranching and the Practice of Watershed Conservation	p. 193
Roots of Hunger: The Quest for a Sustainable Food Culture	p. 215
Restorying the Land	p. 235
Navigating the Rapids of the Future	p. 252
Conclusion	p. 259
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