The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling & skill / Tim Ingold.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- Ch. 1. Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life -- Ch. 2. The optimal forager and economic man -- Ch. 3. Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment -- Ch. 4. From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations -- Ch. 5. Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children -- Ch. 6. A circumpolar night's dream -- Ch. 7. Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -- Ch. 8. Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land -- Ch. 9. Culture, perception and cognition -- Ch. 10. Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world -- Ch. 11. The temporality of the landscape -- Ch. 12. Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism -- Ch. 13. To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation -- Ch. 14. Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement -- Ch. 15. Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology -- Ch. 16. Society, nature and the concept of technology -- Ch. 17. Work, time and industry -- Ch. 18. On weaving a basket -- Ch. 19. Of string bags and birds' nests: skill and the construction of artefacts -- Ch. 20. The dynamics of technical change -- Ch. 21. 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human -- Ch. 22. Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' -- Ch. 23. The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index.