Title:
Echo loba, loba echo : of wisdom, wolves and women
Author:
Added Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2023
Publication Information:
[Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB Rocky Mountain Books Ltd., [2023]
©2023.
Physical Description:
xxi, 233 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:
9781771606288
Abstract:
"Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves' own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves. Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba - for she-wolf - is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma'iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Allied with Wolf -- Wolf -- One Who Guides the Way -- If You Look Like a Wolf -- Worldviews Colliding -- Wolf Girl -- Language Born of Territory -- To Do Violence -- Mis/understanding Wolf -- Lobotomize -- Wolf Is Another Word for Woman -- Paw -- Wolf Culture -- The Word for Wolf Is -- Learning the Destructive Way -- If Wild Meant Home -- Choreography -- Words for Restoring to Balance -- Where the River Longs to Touch the Ocean -- Arctic Hysteric -- The Wolf Pack -- Wolf-like Wisdom -- Skull -- The Big Life -- Kill for Fun, or Live Alongside -- The Ability to Transform -- Blood Road -- Daring to Question -- In the Blank Page I See a Snowdrift -- The Story of Wolf Is Bound to the Story of Bison -- Erased Memories -- Wolves and Dogs -- Fur -- This Is the Essence of Wolves -- Outlaw Wolves -- Return -- The Red Forest Is Green Again -- Center Point -- The Metaphor of Wolf -- Selected Sources -- Index -- About the Author.
Language:
English
