Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy

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In the English language, we reserve the pronouns of personhood for humans—”he,” “she,” “they”—and not for animals, plants, and landscapes. Yet in many of America’s indigenous languages, such barriers are dissolved, ... Download Podcast The post Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy appeared first on Orion Magazine.