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Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and (the) Us in the Wild by Martin Lee Mueller, Stephan Harding is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Storytelling animal -- Hidden salmon -- Exploited captives -- Keystone -- The sea in our veins -- Being human -- This animate waterworld -- Being salmon -- The earth ever struggles to be heard -- Salmon boy -- In the shadow of the standing reserve -- The salmon fairytale -- Drawn inside geostory -- The story of the smolts.;Nautilus Award Silver Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In search of a new story for our place on earth Being Salmon, Being Human examines Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon-weaving together key narratives about the Norwegian salmon industry as well as wild salmon in indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest. Mueller uses this lens to articulate a comprehensive critique of human exceptionalism, directly challenging the four-hundred-year-old notion that other animals are nothing but complicated machines without rich inner lives and that Earth is a passive backdrop to human experience. Being fully human, he argues, means experiencing the intersection of our horizon of understanding with that of other animals. Salmon are the test case for this. Mueller experiments, in evocative narrative pas

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Author

Martin Lee Mueller, Stephan Harding

Publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing Co

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781603587563

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, Nature

Rating

4.4 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14