ENVS 85 Land, Love & Kinship: A Seminar on Indigenous Environmental Knowledges

Taking a global perspective, this course will discuss the roles that Indigenous knowledges play in the contemporary world, paying particular attention to how Indigenous knowledge holders enact, tend, and build their environmental knowledges through active and moral relationships with land, water, plants, animals, and other beings. We will examine how key concepts like kinship and relational accountability have developed within Indigenous studies as ways of understanding the relational, embodied, and spiritual nature of Indigenous environmental knowledge. 

Instructor

Reo

Cross Listed Courses

NAIS 81.04 NAS 81.04

Prerequisite

NAIS 8 or ENVS 2 and 3; at least two upper-level ENVS or NAIS courses; or permission of the instructor. Open only to seniors (or to other classes with permission of the instructor) majoring or minoring in NAIS and/or ENVS. This class satisfies the ENVS and NAIS culminating experience requirement.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:TMV

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Offered

• Spring