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Common Ground
Stories of Knowledge and Belonging
What do we owe the knowledge that shaped us? And what happens when sharing it means risking its destruction?
In six interlocking stories spanning four decades and three continents, Common Ground follows masters of rare disciplines—an art conservator who sees hidden layers in colonial paintings, a cartographer learning to map what instruments cannot measure, a chef carrying three traditions of fire in his scarred hands—as they confront the impossible ethics of knowledge that survives only by staying hidden.
A documentary filmmaker deletes eleven minutes of sacred footage while a tribal council watches. A meteorologist discovers the atmosphere preserves chemical signatures of mass graves. A doctor trained in Western medicine sits in the dirt for weeks, waiting for a traditional healer to decide whether to teach her anything at all.
These are stories about what cannot be taught—only practiced, failed at, and perhaps eventually understood. About the distance between expertise and wisdom. About communities that learned long ago what happens when revelation meets power, and the outsiders who must earn trust that may never fully arrive.
Moving from a Danish smokehouse to Hong Kong street kitchens, from Bogotá's violence to Alaska's traditional healing rooms, from the stone gardens of Kyoto to the salmon rivers of the Pacific Northwest, Common Ground explores the territory where indigenous knowledge meets institutional authority—and asks who has the right to decide what gets preserved, what gets shared, and what stays protected.
For readers of Richard Powers, Louise Erdrich, and Amitav Ghosh—literary fiction that takes both science and traditional knowledge seriously, without easy answers or simple villains.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Common GroundStories of Knowledge and BelongingWhat do we owe the knowledge that shaped us? And what happens when sharing it means risking its destruction?In six interlocking stories spanning four decades and three continents, Common Ground follows masters of rare disciplines-an art conservator who sees hidden layers in colonial paintings, a cartographer learning to map what instruments cannot measure, a chef carrying three traditions of fire in his scarred hands-as they confront the impossible ethics of knowledge that survives only by staying hidden.A documentary filmmaker deletes eleven minutes of sacred footage while a tribal council watches. A meteorologist discovers the atmosphere preserves chemical signatures of mass graves. A doctor trained in Western medicine sits in the dirt for weeks, waiting for a traditional healer to decide whether to teach her anything at all.These are stories about what cannot be taught-only practiced, failed at, and perhaps eventually understood. About the distance between expertise and wisdom. About communities that learned long ago what happens when revelation meets power, and the outsiders who must earn trust that may never fully arrive.Moving from a Danish smokehouse to Hong Kong street kitchens, from Bogota's violence to Alaska's traditional healing rooms, from the stone gardens of Kyoto to the salmon rivers of the Pacific Northwest, Common Ground explores the territory where indigenous knowledge meets institutional authority-and asks who has the right to decide what gets preserved, what gets shared, and what stays protected.For readers of Richard Powers, Louise Erdrich, and Amitav Ghosh-literary fiction that takes both science and traditional knowledge seriously, without easy answers or simple villains. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798303099319
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A groundbreaking collection of interconnected stories that reimagines how traditional wisdom and modern expertise can work together to heal our fractured world.In "Common Ground: Stories of Knowledge and Belonging," six professionals discover that the most profound solutions emerge not from choosing between traditional and scientific knowledge, but from learning to weave them together with respect and humility.Dr. Leilani Nakamura, a marine biologist, begins her career dismissing her Hawaiian grandmother's ocean wisdom as "unscientific superstition"-until a devastating typhoon in the Philippines forces her to rely entirely on Traditional Tagbanua knowledge to assess reef damage. What she learns transforms not only her research methods but her understanding of what it means to truly see an ecosystem.Kofi Mensah arrives in Sao Paulo's favelas armed with architectural drawings that promise to solve poverty through better design. Instead, he discovers that families living in "substandard" housing are master builders who understand things about climate, community, and adaptability that his university training never taught him. His journey through Brazil, Morocco, and Vancouver becomes a quest to understand how buildings can speak the language of belonging.Dr. Amina Hassan fled her grandmother's traditional healing practices to become a "modern" doctor, only to find herself treating refugees whose illnesses don't fit Western psychiatric categories. When her own malaria resists standard treatment but responds to traditional herbs, she begins a journey toward integration that takes her from Kenya's rural clinics to Alaska's Native Medical Center.Zara Osman, a coding prodigy who found identity through technology when cultural heritage felt distant, develops a mobile banking app that consistently fails in rural Kenya. Grace Wanjiru, a village elder, teaches her that community trust networks are sophisticated algorithms-just different from the ones Silicon Valley builds. Zara's evolution from individual innovation to community-centered technology design mirrors our urgent need for ethical AI that serves rather than extracts.Santiago Restrepo returns to Colombia to document communities surviving violence, believing his camera can capture and heal collective trauma. But Don Evaristo, a traditional storyteller, challenges everything he learned in film school: some stories belong to communities, not individuals. Santiago's journey through Colombia, Iceland, and the Pacific Northwest becomes an exploration of who has the right to tell whose story-and how.These five paths converge in the final story around Dr. James Lightfoot, a Metis environmental policy professor preparing his retirement lecture. As he reflects on artifacts from 39 years of trying to bridge indigenous and Western knowledge systems, he realizes his career has been part of humanity's "long conversation" between different ways of knowing-a conversation that began long before him and will continue long after.Set across three continents and spanning two decades, these stories reveal subtle connections that illuminate a larger truth: around the world, professionals are quietly learning to work respectfully with traditional knowledge holders, creating solutions that neither system could achieve alone. From coral reefs to urban housing, from healthcare to artificial intelligence, from documentary filmmaking to environmental policy, "Common Ground" shows integration in action across every field that matters to our future.This is not a collection about choosing sides in culture wars, but about the patient, practical work of building bridges. Each story stands alone while contributing to a larger narrative about belonging, expertise, and the wisdom that emerges when different ways of knowing Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798303099319
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