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In the Spirit of the Earth: Rethinking History and Time
by Calvin Luther Martin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press (1993-08-01)
ISBN: 0801847095
EAN: 9780801847097
Dewy Decimal #: 577
Paperback: 176 pages
SKU: 07110482
Condition: New As issued no jac
Comments: New book. Trade paperback with no marks or creases. Appears unread. Beautiful book.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
A meditation by an award-winning historian calls for a new way of looking at the natural world and our place in it while boldly challenging the assumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history and time. "In the Spirit of the Earth" is a provocative account of how the hunter-gatherer image of nature was lost with devastating consequences for the environment and the human spirit.
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Customer Reviews
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Interesting book, interesting man
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-03-02
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Don't pay attention to Trickster. If you've ever had a course on Native-American mythology you'd know what a trickster is. There is nothing in this book about quantum physics. I was fortunate enough to have Calvin Luther Martin as a professor at Rutgers. I took one of his Native-American courses for fun and it was just that. Wildly fun. He was easily my favorite professor at Rutgers. He is a fantastic story-teller and if he's ever lecturing in your area by all means try to catch him. His lectures had a campfire-like atmosphere. That's how intimate and magical they felt. He would roam up and down the aisles of the lecture hall and speak in a soft yet energetic voice. This man is the definition of eloquence. This book is a very interesting read. Even though it's been about 8 years since I was first assigned to read it I've read it several times since then. Each time I pick it up I see something that I missed in the previous read. This is one of those books that you can't benefit from unless you've read it at least twice. The book will eventually blow your mind if you read it enough. It makes you look at history from a completely different perspective. That is no small feat.
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Watch out for the trickster
Rating (4)
Date: 2001-11-09
2 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
Just a note: the "review" by Trickster is just that, a con job.
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the Indians knew about quantum physics
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-09-06
5 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
CHI-HO! Enter the mass of CLM and hear the gospel that you have ignored. Yes, you heard it here first--the Indians knew about quantum physics, but their knowledge of arcane physics was not enough to stop their destruction by the white man. Learn about superpositioning: this when Indians would teleport forward or backward in time (because time is cyclical). There is also a helpful section on painting oneself up like a tribal warrior of the past. My gripe with the book is that Mr. Martin has left out a crucial facet of Indian history--the smashing of the teleportation machines by the early Dutch settlers. This fact cannot be ignored in any survey of the period. CHI-HO!
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This book changed my life: former student of the author.
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-01-10
10 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a student of Calvin's at Rutgers University this review is not without bias, and yet to call it a stirring book, and to pronounce Calvin a profound thinker is not gratuitous enough. This is a book which engages the metaphysics of Native American occupation of North America as a means to critique the Western understanding of human spatial and temporal existence. It is both historical and philosophical as it seeks to reevaluate the relationship between human beings and the "place" they inhabit. Calvin is one of those individuals who has the power to change the way you see yourself in relationship to the world around you; "In The Spirit of the Earth", contains this power.
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