Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

ISBN-13: 9781032052311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 332 str.

Tim Ingold

Opis

Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, and the experiences of light, sound and feeling. This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Spis treści

Prologue: 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 Concepts of Soundscapes  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: Anthropology is not ethnography

O autorze

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of many books, including Lines, Making, Imagining for Real and The Perception of the Environment.