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The Serviceberry
[edit ]The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, is a 2024 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, contrasting economies of sharing, abundance and reciprocity found in the natural world with economies based on extraction, individual accumulation, scarcity and profit. Synthesizing Indigenous knowledge, natural and social science, Kimmerer describes how humans can learn from, emulate, and become part of nature's economy. The Serviceberry, a widespread North American fruit tree, is the focal character in the book, exemplifying relationships of reciprocity and abundance where "all flourishing is mutual".
Contents
[edit ]The Serviceberry comprises a series of seven untitled essays, bookended by illustrations by John Burgoyne, followed by a 1-page "Invitation to be a Part of the Gift Economy", Acknowlegements, and "About the Author and Illustrator" page.
Essay 1 (pp. 1-19):
Essay 2 (pp. 21-26):
Essay 3 (pp. 29-38):
Essay 4 (pp. 41-50):
Essay 5 (pp. 53-65):
Essay 6 (pp 67-82):
Essay 7 (pp. 85-105):
Honors and awards
[edit ]The Serviceberry spent 19 weeks on the New York Times best seller's list, starting off as an "instant best seller" on release in November, 2024, and reaching as high as #6. The book was awarded Best Book of the Year by Forbes, Library Journal and Scientific American.
Reception
[edit ]References
[edit ]Bibliography and Notes
[edit ]The Serviceberry does not contain its own bibliography or notes section. This section contains notes and links to people, places, and things mentioned in the book, by section.
Pages 1-20:
Individual people include:
James Vukelich, Anishinaabe linguist.
Genevieve Vaughan, feminist thinker (personal website: http://www.genevievevaughan.org/; Link to her essay The Maternal Gift Economy; Link to YouTube video recording of the 6th Annual Maternal Gift Economy Movement Conference (November 28, 2025); The Maternal Gift Economy Movement YouTube channel, with livestreams and other videos by Genevieve Vaughan and others.
Miki Kashtan, feminist thinker; Virtual Salon with The Maternal Gift Economy Movement on March 13, 2021 (includes some biographical information and a video recording of the conversation); Webinar with Work That Reconnects Network on January 27, 2024 about the Maternal Gift Economy (includes some biographical information, links to resources shared during the event, and a video recording of the webinar); Talk for the Ecoversities Alliance on October 25, 2024 called "The Maternal Gifting Paradigm: From Education to Global Economy" (video recording).
Groups of Peoples include:
Potawatomi Nation; Citizen Potawatomi Nation; Website of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation; Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center.
Anishinaabe peoples of the Great Lakes region; Library Learning Commons Library Guide with links to resources about the Anishinaabe peoples.
Haudenosaunee peoples; Haudenosaunee Confederacy website; Haudenosaunee Guide for Educators from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Species (loosely defined here as any organism mentioned) include:
cedar waxwing, catbird, bluebird, robin, local native serviceberry (Bozakmin in Potawatomi), Amelanchier arborea, western species of serviceberry, Amelanchier alnifolia, general serviceberry genus Amelanchier (also commonly called Saskatoons, Juneberry, shadbush, shadblow, sugarplum, sarvis), shad, deer, moose, tiger swallowtail butterfly, viceroy butterfly, admiral butterfly, hairstreak butterfly, blueberry (Minaan), apple (Mishiimin), strawberry (Odemin), raspberry (Mskadiismin), maize (corn, Madnamin), wild rice (Manomin), maple tree, beaver, beetles, vole, algae, zooplankton.
Other entities, organisms, ideas, or notable nouns include:
pemmican, a food made from pounded dried bison or venison, serviceberries, and rendered fat formed into bars; Mother Earth; carbon and nitrogen cycles; Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and other Indigenous Peoples' concept of "a culture of gratitude," defined by Kimmerer as "lifeways organized around recognition and responsibility for earthly gifts, both ceremonial and pragmatic" (page 11)
Pages 21-28:
Other entities, organisms, ideas, or notable nouns include:
serviceberry economy, market economy, natural resources, gifts and gift economy, commodity, extraction, reciprocity
Pages 29-40:
Individual people include:
Dr. Valerie Luzadis: define economics as a how we organize ourselves to sustain lids and enhance its quality: . She is the current president of the United States Society for Ecological Economics. Her works link social, economics and ecology and she is a professor also contribute in policy making. We encounter her in Serviceberry book by Robin Wall Kimmer and she mention her defination of economics as how we organize ourselves to sustain life and enhance its quality. She is an author of "An Earth Economy: Citizenship before Consumerism" published on October 23, 2013, by the Center for Humans and Nature. In this article she is questioning on human whetther we are citizen or consumer on Earth. It emphasizes an "Earth ethic," urging a shift in perspective to recognize ourselves as active members of a living community rather than just users of resources.
Lewis Hyde: book the gift, First eddition by Lewis Hyde. Language: English Publisher:Random House (hardbound) Vintage Books (paperback) Publication date:1983 ISBN: 0-394-71519-5
Charles Eisenstein: book: Sacred economics
Dr. Ronald Trosper: book Indigenous Economics sustaining people and their lands:
Species (loosely defined here as any organism mentioned) include:
Juneberry
Pages 41-52:
Individual people include:
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Pages 53-66:
Individual people include:
Garrett Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons
Other entities, organisms, ideas, or notable nouns include:
Pages 67-84:
Individual people include:
David Sloan Wilson, evolutionary biologist
Richard Powers, author
Species (loosely defined here as any organism mentioned) include:
Saskatoons (tree), Jays, Thrashers and Robins, Juneberries
Groups of Peoples include:
Indigenous societies Potawatomi culture
Pages 85-109:
Individual people include:
Paulie & Ed Drexler, Springside Farm
Charles Eisenstein, Sacred Economics:
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics
Collins, Katherine (2014) The nature of investing : resilient investment strategies through biomimicry. Brookline, MA : Bibliomotion. 209 p., ISBN-10 1937134946