The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and SkillRoutledge, 29/11/2021 - 630 من الصفحات 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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Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Tim Ingold. Cover image: © Nicholas Eveleigh / Alamy Stock Photo This edition published 2022 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New ...
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Tim Ingold. Acknowledgements. I am a perpetual student of anthropology, taught largely by those whom I am supposed to have been teaching. And no-one could have had a more inspiring set of teachers ...
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Tim Ingold. but itself, so that an investigation of musical meaning should be able to show how meaning can reside in art as such. 'If the meaning of art belongs to the sensuous percept itself ...
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Tim Ingold. is to maximise the balance between the energy intake from harvested resources and the energy costs of procurement. Figure 2.1 The 'primitive' hunter-gatherer conceived as a version of ...
Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Tim Ingold. in orientation to the environment, she suggests, that most fundamentally distinguishes hunter-gatherers from cultivators, and it is upheld even when the former draw (as they often do) ...
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northern Quebec | |
Dwelling | |
Introduction to Part III | |
Society nature and the concept of technology | |
Work time and industry | |
On weaving a basket | |
skill and the construction of artefacts | |
The dynamics of technical change | |
Western Desert | |
the concept of the anatomically modern human | |
The temporality of the landscape | |
the topology of environmentalism | |
Solofra | |
maps wayfinding and navigation | |
Stop look and listen Vision hearing and human movement | |
Skill | |
Speech writing and the modern origins of language origins | |
from technology language and intelligence to craft song and imagination | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |