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

• Autore: Ingold Tim <1948-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 301; 301.01
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Philosophy; Human ecology - Philosophy; Human beings - Effect of environment on; Geographical perception; Nature - Effect of human beings on
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Being Alive
• ISBN: 1-283-10331-1; 9786613103314; 1-136-73543-7; 0-203-81833-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910534895903321
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