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The Perception of the Environment - Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (Hardcover)
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The Perception of the Environment - Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill (Hardcover)
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In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to
understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He
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 twenty-three 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 in a
way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to
revolutionise the way we think about what is 'biological' and
'cultural' in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about
what it means for human beings - at once organisms and persons - to
inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be
essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for
biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and
philosophers. This edition includes a new Preface by the author.
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