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A 4 page essay that summarizes and discusses a chapter from Jerry Mander’s 1991 text In the Absence of the Sacred, which is entitled “Indians are different from Americans.” In this chapter, Mander argues that the worldview of the native or aboriginal peoples of the world—that is, the so-called “Indians,” which is basically a misnomer coined by a lost European—is fundamentally different from the worldview of mainstream culture in industrialized Western society. The discussion of this chapter summarizes Mander’s principal points in making this argument. No additional sources cited.
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worldview of the native or aboriginal peoples of the world-that is, the so-called "Indians," which is basically a misnomer coined by a lost European-is fundamentally different from the worldview of
mainstream culture in industrialized Western society. The following discussion of this chapter will summarize Manders principal points in making this argument. Mander begins by citing Carolyn Merchants work and
arguing that the Enlightenment initiated a paradigm change in the way that Europeans perceived their relationship to the natural world and that the "scientific revolution" changed that view from one
that saw the Earth as "a female being, the actual mother of life" to one that viewed the Earth as mechanistic, "a kind of dead thing, a machine" (Mander 211).
This idea forms the backdrop to Manders ideas as he argues that it is "critically important for all Westerners to realize that the idea of the earth not being
alive is a new idea" (Mander 212). He feels that because Western nations fail to see the Earth as alive, as mother, people feel "free of moral and ethical constraints"
in how they go about exploiting natural resources (Mander 212). One of Manders points is that Westerners, particularly Americans, find it hard to conceive of and understand the idea
of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cultural ideas with those of Indian culture, which,
indeed, show that Indian culture is quite different (Mander 212). He explains the Native American paradigm that sees the Earth as living, which is a concept that biologists Lynn Margulis
and James Lovelock explore in the book The Gaia Hypothesis, which presents a thesis that the "planet and the atmosphere" constitute "a unified biological entity" (Mander 213). While doing
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