Being alive: essays on movement, knowledge and description

by Ingold, Tim

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Title Statements

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xviii, 270 p. : : il. ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415576840, 0415576849, 9780203818336, 0203818334, 9780415576833, 0415576830
oclc:ocn858927101
LC Classification:GN33
Dewey Decimal:301.01

Prologo. Anthropology comes to life -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. The meshwork. Rethinking the animate, reanimating the thought ; Point, line, counterpoint : from environment to fluid space ; When ant meets spider : social theory for arthropods -- Part III. Earth and sky. The shape of the earth ; Earth, sky, wind and weather ; Landscape or weather-world? ; Four objections to the concept of soundscape -- Part IV. 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 -- Part V. 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.

Subjects

Antropologia -- Filosofia Antropología física -- Filosofía Ecologia humana -- Filosofia Geographical perception Human ecology -- Philosophy Percepción geográfica Philosophical anthropology Seres humanos -- Efectos del clima