: Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad . Roland Littlewood.

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

doi:10.1525/aa.1994.96.4.02a00320

When Mother Earth Rises Up

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000112 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 271-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Simona Sacchi ◽

Paolo Riva ◽

Marco Brambilla

Keyword(s):

Free Will ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Natural Disaster ◽

Mental States ◽

Disaster Victims ◽

Willingness To Help ◽

Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

Download Full-text

ECO ARTISTS: EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES AND RECLAIMING THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF MOTHER EARTH

10.1130/abs/2018rm-314330 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lori J. Santos ◽

◽

Steven H. Emerman

Keyword(s):

Intrinsic Value ◽

Mother Earth

Download Full-text

Call Your "Mutha"

10.1093/oso/9780190902704.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Caputi

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Popular Culture ◽

The Other ◽

Political Class ◽

Mother Nature ◽

And Gender ◽

Mother Earth ◽

Made In

The proposed new geological era, The Anthropocene (a.k.a. Age of Humans, Age of Man), marking human domination of the planet long called Mother Earth, is truly The Age of the Motherfucker. The ecocide of the Anthropocene is the responsibility of Man, the Western- and masculine-identified corporate, military, intellectual, and political class that masks itself as the exemplar of the civilized and the human. The word motherfucker was invented by the enslaved children of White slave masters to name their mothers’ rapist/owners. Man’s strategic motherfucking, from the personal to the planetary, is invasion, exploitation, spirit-breaking, extraction and toxic wasting of individuals, communities, and lands, for reasons of pleasure, plunder, and profit. Ecocide is attempted deicide of Mother Nature-Earth, reflecting Man’s goal to become the god he first made in his own image. The motivational word Motherfucker has a flip side, further revealing the Anthropocene as it signifies an outstanding, formidable, and inexorable force. Mother Nature-Earth is that “Mutha’ ”—one defying translation into heteropatriarchal classifications of gender, one capable of overwhelming Man, and not the other way around. Drawing upon Indigenous and African American scholarship; ecofeminism; ecowomanism; green activism; femme, queer, and gender non-binary philosophies; literature and arts; Afrofuturism; and popular culture, Call Your “Mutha’ ” contends that the Anthropocene is not evidence of Man’s supremacy over nature, but that Mother Nature-Earth, faced with disrespect, is going away. It is imperative now to call the “Mutha’ ” by decolonizing land, bodies, and minds, ending rapism, feeding the green, renewing sustaining patterns, and affirming devotion to Mother Nature-Earth.

Download Full-text

Death Imagined: From Mother Earth to Dust and Ashes in the Mind of Job

American Imago ◽

10.1353/aim.2021.0000 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 78 (1) ◽

pp. 1-53

Author(s):

Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Keyword(s):

The Mind ◽

Mother Earth

Download Full-text

A true gift of mother earth: the use and significance of obsidian at Çatalhöyük

Anatolian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0066154600008759 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 61 ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Tristan Carter

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Daily Practice ◽

Social Identities ◽

Raw Material ◽

Central Anatolia ◽

Social Significance ◽

Key Issues ◽

Raw Material Variability ◽

Mother Earth

AbstractThis paper reviews 50 years of obsidian studies at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in the Konya plain, central Anatolia. A number of key issues are addressed: (1) the source of the site's raw materials, the means and forms by which the obsidian was introduced to the site and the role of Çatalhöyük in the supra-regional dissemination of these raw materials; (2) the alleged gender associations of certain obsidian goods in the burial record and beyond; (3) a more general consideration of the social significance of the circulation and consumption of obsidian at the site, including the phenomena of hoarding and gifting, plus the important role of projectiles in the creation of social identities and various forms of ritual behaviour, not least the termination of the life of a building/individual; (4) the technotypological and raw material variability through time; (5) the use of obsidian in daily practice and craft-working.

Download Full-text

A Feminist Ethic That Binds Us to Mother Earth

Ethics & the Environment ◽

10.2979/ethicsenviro.20.2.83 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Swanson

Keyword(s):

Feminist Ethic ◽

Mother Earth

Download Full-text

Caves and Ancient Maya Ritual Use ofJute

Latin American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/3557596 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 207-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Christina T. Halperin ◽

Sergio Garza ◽

Keith M. Prufer ◽

James E. Bradya

Keyword(s):

Religious Beliefs ◽

Ancient Maya ◽

Limited Data ◽

Maya Lowlands ◽

Freshwater Gastropods ◽

Faunal Assemblages ◽

Surface Sites ◽

Ethnographic Data ◽

Mother Earth ◽

Ceremonial Architecture

AbstractA number of previous authors have suggested, based on limited data, thatPachychilusspp., freshwater gastropods often calledjute, may have played a role in ancient Maya ritual. Data collected by the authors demonstrate thatjuteshells consistently appear as part of faunal assemblages in ceremonial caves across the southern Maya Lowlands. At surface sites, jute are often associated with ceremonial architecture, particularly ballcourts. Previous ethnographic accounts are reviewed for clues to ancient Maya jute use. New ethnographic data suggest a role not previously considered by archaeologists. A Q‘eqchi’ Maya informant states that shells are gathered up after meals and deposited in caves as an offering in thanks to “Mother Earth” (Madre Tierra) who provided the mollusks. This practice suggests that the ancient shells may represent a secondary deposition rather than reflecting consumption occurring in the cave. The presence of jute shells may document ancient religious beliefs and ritual activities surrounding an important subsistence resource.

Download Full-text