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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456884703321

Autore

Ingold Tim <1948-, >

Titolo

Being alive : essays on movement, knowledge and description / / Tim Ingold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-10331-1

9786613103314

1-136-73543-7

0-203-81833-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Disciplina

301

301.01

Soggetti

Anthropology - Philosophy

Human ecology - Philosophy

Human beings - Effect of environment on

Geographical perception

Nature - Effect of human beings on

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Being Alive; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Prologue; 1. Anthropology comes to life; Part I: Clearing the ground; 2. Materials against materiality; 3. Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet; 4. Walking the plank: meditations on a process of skill; Part II: The meshwork; 5. Rethinking the animate, reanimating thought; 6. Point, line, counterpoint: from environment to fluid space; 7. When ANT meets SPIDER: social theory for arthropods; Part III: Earth and sky; 8. The shape of the earth; 9. Earth, sky, wind and weather

10. Landscape or weather-world?11. Four objections to the concept of soundscape; Part IV: A storied world; 12. Against space: place, movement, knowledge; 13. Stories against classification: transport, wayfaring and the integration of knowledge; 14. Naming as storytelling: speaking of animals among the Koyukon of Alaska; Part V: Drawing



making writing; 15. Seven variations on the letter A; 16. Ways of mind-walking: reading, writing, painting; 17. The textility of making.; 18. Drawing together: doing, observing, describing; Epilogue; 19. Anthropology is not ethnography; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern. Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the percept