Aldo Leopold'un toprak etiği ve Leslie Marmon Silko'nun Seremoni'si

American environmentalist, nature writer and philosopher Aldo Leopold's idea of "land ethic", which reminds us of the fact that we are "plain members of the biotic community", has attracted great attention since its first day and has become one of the cornerstones of environmental philosophy. This dissertation aims to analyze Leopold's philosophy as it is described in his seminal work A Sand County Almanac (1949) and how it is observed in the modernist Native American novel Ceremony (1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Throughout the thesis, in an ecocritical frame, I try to develop my argument that many elements of Leopold's land ethic are also present in the Native American tradition, and these elements can be observed in Silko's Ceremony. The study consists of two chapters, the introduction and conclusion parts. In the first chapter, Leopold's literary essay "The Land Ethic" in A Sand County Almanac is examined closely in an attempt to understand its contribution to environmental ethics. The second chapter focuses on Leslie Marmon Silko's famous novel Ceremony. I begin this chapter with looking at Silko's own life; then I try to bring together concepts from Leopold's land ethic and view of nature and ethic in Native American culture. I analyze the novel by looking at the language, characters and events closely to find out and highlight the parallels with Leopold's land ethic.