ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thicket
17 Apr 2016
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In tribal tradiion that view is seen in double subjecivity (if you cut down a tree you are damaging the tree and yourself because you both have vitality" (life) Ex: canoeing you notch a tree to mark a portage somehow never thought about implicaions vs. indigenous people who would slightly distort tree o. Above the beach it was all luxuriant growth; the earth was so full of vitality that every seed which blew across her surface germinated and burst. Growing things jumbled themselves ascribing agency to nature. The people in skedans have a diferent way of dealing with the world. Suggests there is a link between how you see the natural world and how you behave with it morally. We came to toxis which was the indian name for the indian house which stood just above high ide water. The sea was in front of it and the forest behind.
