The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill /: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill /: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. (2021)
- Main Title:
- The perception of the environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill
- Further Information:
- Note: Tim Ingold.
- Authors:
- Ingold, Tim, 1948-
- Contents:
- Part I: Livelihood 1. Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life 2. The optimal forager and economic man 3. Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment 4. From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations 5. Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children 6. A circumpolar night's dream 7. Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals 8. Ancestry, substance, memory, land Part II: Dwelling 9. Culture, perception and cognition 10. Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world 11. The temporality of the landscape 12. Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism 13. To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation 14. Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement Part III: Skill 15. Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology 16. Society, nature and the concept of technology 17. Work, time and industry 18. On weaving a basket 19. Of string bags and birds' nests: Skill and the construction of artefacts 20. The dynamics of technical change 21. 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human 22. Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' 23. The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination
- Edition:
- New edition
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 301.01
Anthropology -- Philosophy
Human ecology -- Philosophy
Psychology
Social evolution - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000504668
9781000504606
9781003196662 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781032052281
9781032052274 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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