The Perception of the Environment - Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (Hardcover)

How do people perceive the world around them? Why should their perceptions differ? This work offers an approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. It argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural.;To account for the generation of skills, we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The 23 essays comprising this book, focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to "dwell", and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology.;The book aims to revolutionize contemporary thought about what is "biological" and "cultural" in humans, about evolution and history, and what it means for human beings to inhabit an environment.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	2000
Authors:	Tim Ingold
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-22831-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	0-415-22831-X
Barcode:	9780415228312

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