In her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass , Robin Wall Kimmerer describes the reciprocity between humans and nature while also contemplating another potentially beneficial relationship—between Indigenous knowledge and Western science. Not surprisingly, this integration is easier said than done. Recently, for example, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) terminated a $2 million study on how to best combine Indigenous and Western approaches to understanding the natural world. The problem? As Kimmerer herself said on this page, effective collaboration with Indigenous communities requires Western science to respect cultural practices and scientific ideas that diverge from the reductionist approach. Unless the scientific community leans into this discomfort, we will never unlock the possibility that this relationship could help address some of society’s most distressing problems.

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罗宾·沃尔·基默勒（Robin Wall Kimmerer）在她的畅销书《编织甜草》中描述了人类与自然之间的互惠性，同时也思考了另一种潜在有益的关系——土著知识与西方科学之间的关系。毫不奇怪，这种整合说起来容易做起来难。例如，最近，美国国家科学、工程和医学院 (NASEM) 终止了一项耗资 200 万美元的研究，该研究旨在研究如何最好地结合本土方法和西方方法来理解自然世界。问题？正如基默勒本人在本页上所说，与土著社区的有效合作需要西方科学尊重与还原论方法不同的文化实践和科学思想。除非科学界倾向于这种不适，否则我们永远无法解开这种关系有助于解决一些社会最令人痛苦的问题的可能性。