The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling & skill /
Ingold, Tim, 1948-
The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling & skill / Tim Ingold. - xiv, 465 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23.
0415228328 (pb) 041522831X (hb)
00027142
Anthropology--Philosophy
Human ecology--Philosophy
Psychology.
Social evolution.
GN33. / I48 2000
301.01
The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling & skill / Tim Ingold. - xiv, 465 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11. Ch. 12. Ch. 13. Ch. 14. Ch. 15. Ch. 16. Ch. 17. Ch. 18. Ch. 19. Ch. 20. Ch. 21. Ch. 22. Ch. 23.
0415228328 (pb) 041522831X (hb)
00027142
Anthropology--Philosophy
Human ecology--Philosophy
Psychology.
Social evolution.
GN33. / I48 2000
301.01