Being Alive: Essays On Movement, Knowledge And Description
by Tim Ingold /
2011 / English / PDF
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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
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
workThe Perception of the Environment
The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets
out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of
anthropological concern.
, Tim Ingold sets
out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of
anthropological concern.Being Alive
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 feeling, the
role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the
potential of drawing to unite observation and description.
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 feeling, the
role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the
potential of drawing to unite observation and description.
Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is
continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life.
Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold
presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and
description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of
being alive to what is going on there.
Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is
continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life.
Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold
presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and
description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of
being alive to what is going on there.