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Anthropology Comes To Life -- Materials Against Materiality -- Culture On The Ground: The World Perceived Through The Feet -- Walking The Plank: Meditations On A Proces Of Skill -- Rethinking The Animate, Reanimating The Thought -- Point, Line, Counterpoint: From Environment To Fluid Space -- When Ant Meets Spider: Social Theory For Arthropods -- The Shape Of The Earth -- Earth, Sky, Wind And Weather -- Landscape Or Weather-world? -- Four Objections To The Concept Of Soundscape -- 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 -- Seven Variations On The Letter A -- Ways Of Mind-walking: Reading, Writing, Painting -- The Textility Of Making -- Drawing Together: Doing, Observing, Describing -- Anthropology Is Not Ethnography. Tim Ingold. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [254]-264) And Index.
This collection investigates how human knowledge and social existence are fundamentally shaped by movement and engagement with the environment rather than static observation. Tim Ingold, a prominent anthropologist, challenges traditional academic frameworks that treat the world as a collection of objects to be classified. By drawing on phenomenology and ecological psychology, he argues that human life is a process of 'wayfaring' where thinking and doing are inextricably linked through our physical presence in the world.
What You Will Find
Scholars and students of anthropology frequently cite this work as a foundational text for understanding the 'relational' approach to human existence. Readers often note the dense, philosophical nature of the prose, which demands careful attention to Ingold's unique conceptual vocabulary.
Page Count:
288
Publication Date:
2011-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0203818334
ISBN-13:
9780203818336
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