Tim Ingold

The Perception of the Environment (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. This book is essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 630
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000504668
• Artikelnr.: 62950779

Autorenporträt

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of many books, including Lines, Making, Imagining for Real and Being Alive.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Livelihood 1. Culture
nature
environment: steps to an ecology of life 2. The optimal forager and economic man 3. Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment 4. From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations 5. Making things
growing plants
raising animals and bringing up children 6. A circumpolar night's dream 7. Totemism
animism and the depiction of animals 8. Ancestry
substance
memory
land Part II: Dwelling 9. Culture
perception and cognition 10. Building
dwelling
living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world 11. The temporality of the landscape 12. Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism 13. To journey along a way of life: maps
wayfinding and navigation 14. Stop
look and listen! Vision
hearing and human movement Part III: Skill 15. Tools
minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology 16. Society
nature and the concept of technology 17. Work
time and industry 18. On weaving a basket 19. Of string bags and birds' nests: Skill and the construction of artefacts 20. The dynamics of technical change 21. 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human 22. Speech
writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' 23. The poetics of tool-use: from technology
language and intelligence to craft
song and imagination