European University Institute Library

The perception of the environment, essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill, Tim Ingold

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [436]-453) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The perception of the environment

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706029417

Tim Ingold

essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill

Culture, nature, environment : steps to an ecology of life -- The optimal forager and economic man -- Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment -- From trust to domination : an alternative history of human-animal relations -- Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children -- A circumpolar night's dream -- Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -- Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land -- Culture, perception and cognition -- Building, dwelling, living : how animals and people make themselves at home in the world -- The temporality of the landscape -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism -- To journey along a way of life : maps, wayfinding and navigation -- Stop, look and listen! : vision, hearing and human movement -- Tools, minds and machines : an excursion in the philosophy of technology -- Society, nature and the concept of technology -- Work, time and industry -- On weaving a basket -- Of string bags and birds' nests : skill and the construction of artefacts -- The dynamics of technical change -- 'People like us' : the concept of the anatomically modern human -- Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' -- The poetics of tool-use : from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination