Respect for place can be enacted through pragmatic caretaking rituals

Evidence

My mother had her own more pragmatic ritual of respect: the translation of reverence and intention into action. Before we paddled away from any camping place she made us kids scour the place to be sure that it was spotless. No burnt matchstick, no scrap of paper escaped her notice. “Leave this place better than you found it,” she admonished. And so we did. We also had to leave wood for the next person’s fire, with tinder and kindling carefully sheltered from rain by a sheet of birch bark. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 126

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs the father’s word-ceremony with the mother’s action-ceremony as complementary modes of respect, mirroring the braiding of spiritual and practical knowledge central to the book. — connects to: Repeated rituals of arranging personal objects anchor a person’s sense of place in public.; Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 607; Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 965 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Repeated rituals of arranging personal objects anchor a person’s sense of place in public. #expands (0.80)
• Caring for place and caring for people are mutually dependent #complicates (0.78) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 607
• Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world #complicates (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 965
• Everyday gestures become rituals through the charge they carry #expands (0.72) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1414
• Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it. #complicates (0.71) — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 85
• Fair procedures convey respect and belonging rather than only instrumental benefits #expands (0.70) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2320