Kinship and Otherness
The Fine Art of Shapeshifting in Myth and Folklore
This article was originally published in Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, ed. Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer. Center for Humans and Nature (2021)
I’ve never met a woman who, when the conversation turns that way, doesn’t in some way or other identify with those old European folk tales about part-human, part-animal female…