The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

ISBN-13: 9781032052274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 602 str.

Tim Ingold

Opis

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. This book is essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

Spis treści

Part I: Livelihood  1. Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life  2. The optimal forager and economic man  3. Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment  4. From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations  5. Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children  6. A circumpolar night's dream  7. Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals  8. Ancestry, substance, memory, land  Part II: Dwelling  9. Culture, perception and cognition  10. Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world  11. The temporality of the landscape  12. Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism  13. To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation  14. Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement  Part III: Skill  15. Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology  16. Society, nature and the concept of technology  17. Work, time and industry  18. On weaving a basket  19. Of string bags and birds' nests: Skill and the construction of artefacts  20. The dynamics of technical change  21. 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human  22. Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins'  23. The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination

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 Being Alive.