52 min listen
When Mountains Are Gods
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Jul 24, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
If you look at a mountain, you might see a skiing destination, a climbing challenge, or even a source of timber to be logged or ore to be mined. But there was a time when mountains were sacred. In some places, they still are. What changes when you think of a mountain not as a giant accumulation of natural resources, but as a living being?
Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find more information about the project at ttbook.org/kinship and humansandnature.org.
Original Air Date: July 24, 2021
Guests:
John Hausdoerffer — Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — David Hinton — Lisa Maria Madera
Interviews In This Hour:
What Do You Owe The Mountains Around You? — 'These Are Live, Active Places': A Ute Activist Fights To Save The Bears Ears National Monument — A Poet Finds Life Lessons on Hunger Mountain — 'I Was Born To Volcanoes'
Today’s show is part of our project on kinship with the more-than-human world — produced in collaboration with the Center for Humans and Nature, and with support from the Kalliopeia Foundation. You’ll find more information about the project at ttbook.org/kinship and humansandnature.org.
Original Air Date: July 24, 2021
Guests:
John Hausdoerffer — Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — David Hinton — Lisa Maria Madera
Interviews In This Hour:
What Do You Owe The Mountains Around You? — 'These Are Live, Active Places': A Ute Activist Fights To Save The Bears Ears National Monument — A Poet Finds Life Lessons on Hunger Mountain — 'I Was Born To Volcanoes'
Released:
Jul 24, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (50)
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