Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

Name: Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
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ISBN: 9780415576840

ISBN-10: 0415576849

ISBN-13: 9780415576840

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tim Ingold

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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 perception and formation of the ground, the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world, the experiences of light, sound and…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 4/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



List of figures


Preface and acknowledgements


Prologue



Anthropology comes to life



Clearing the ground



Materials against materiality



Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet



Walking the plank: meditations on a process of skill



The meshwork



Rethinking the animate, reanimating thought



Point, line, counterpoint: from environment to fluid space



When ANT meets SPIDER: social theory for arthropods



Earth and sky



The shape of the earth



Earth, sky, wind and weather



Landscape or weather-world?



Four objections to the concept of soundscape



A storied world



Against space: place, movement, knowledge



Stories against classification: transport, wayfaring and the integration of knowledge



Naming as storytelling: speaking of animals among the Koyukon of Alaska



Drawing making writing



Seven variations on the letter A



Ways of mind-walking: reading, writing, painting



The textility of making



Drawing together: doing, observing, describing


Epilogue



Anthropology is not ethnography


Notes


References


Index