Indigenous worlds and Callicott's land ethic

We assess J. Baird Callicott's attempt in Earth's Insights to reconcile his land ethic with the "environmental ethics" of indigenous peoples. We criti que the rejection of ethical pluralism that informs this attempted rapproch ement. We also assess Callicott's strategy of grounding his land ethic in a postmodern scientific world view by contrasting it with the roles of "resp ect" and narrative in indigenous "ethics."