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Being Alive - Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (Hardcover)
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Being Alive - Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description (Hardcover)
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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 The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out to
restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of
anthropological concern. 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. 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.
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