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Being alive essays on movement, knowledge and description

Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern.

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  • "Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern."
  • "Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern."@en
  • "Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern. Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world, the experiences of light, sound and feeling, the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the potential of drawing to unite observation and description.Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life. Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfari."

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  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description"
  • "Being alive : essays on movement, knowledge and description"
  • "Being Alive : essays on movement, knowledge and description"
  • "Being Alive : Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description"
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