Bibliograph

Being alive, essays on movement, knowledge and description, Tim Ingold

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Being alive, essays on movement, knowledge and description, Tim Ingold

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Being alive

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tim Ingold

Sub title

essays on movement, knowledge and description

Table Of Contents

Prologue. 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 proces 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

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