Ways of Walking

Ethnography and Practice on Foot
Herausgeber: Vergunst, Jo Lee; Ingold, Tim

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversity of ways of walking and the variety of meanings it can embody. This book offers insights into human movement, landscape and social life.

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This exciting new volume focuses on how humans inhabit their environment, considering 'techniques of the body' and walking behaviours to better understand the variety of embodied meanings. Its original collection of work has contributions from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and specialists in education and architecture offering a broad readership of new, innovative and previously overlooked ideas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780754673743
• ISBN-10: 075467374X
• Artikelnr.: 41253163

Autorenporträt

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK and Jo Lee Vergunst is RCUK Academic Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction, Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst
Before a step too far: walking with Batek hunter-gatherers in the forests of Pahang, Malaysia, Lye Tuck-Po
Walking stories: leaving footprints, Allice Legat
The dilemmas of walking: a comparative view, Thomas Widlok
Feet following hooves, Pernille Gooch
Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: perambulatory practice, sight and the sense of belonging, Kenneth R. Olwig
Listen to the sound of time: walking with saints in an Andalusian village, KatrÃn Lund
Taking a trip and taking care in everyday life, Jo Lee Vergunst
Walking through ruins, Tim Edensor
Walking out of the classroom: learning on the streets of Aberdeen, Elizabeth Curtis
Enchantment engineering and pedestrian empowerment: the Geneva case, Sonia Lavadinho and Yves Winkin
'Taking a line for a walk': walking as an aesthetic practice, Raymond Lucas
A collectable topography: walking, remembering and recording mountains, Hayden Lorimer and KatrÃn Lund
Index.