Being Alive

Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-05229-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

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 wayfaring, Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of being alive to what is going on there.

This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingold, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Anthropology comes to Life  Part I: Clearing the Ground  2. Materials against Materiality  3. Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through the Feet  4. Walking the Plank: Meditations on a Process of Skill  Part II: The Meshwork  5. Rethinking the animate, Reanimating Thought  6. Point, Line, Counterpoint: From Environment to Fluid Space  7. When ANT meets SPIDER: Social Theory for Arthropods  Part III: Earth and Sky  8. The Shape of the Earth  9. Earth, Sky, Wind and Weather  10. Landscape or Weather-world?  11. Four Objections to the Concept of Soundscape  Part IV: A Storied World  12. Against Space, Place, Movement, Knowledge  13. Stories Against Classification: Transport, Wayfaring and the Integration of Knowledge  14. Naming as Storytelling: speaking of animals among the Koyukon of Alaska  Part V: Drawing Making Writing  15. Seven Variations on the Letter A  16. Ways of Mind-Walking: reading, writing, painting  17. The Textility of Making  18. Drawing Together: Doing, Observing, Describing  Epilogue: Anthropology is not ethnography

Über Autor(innen)

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of many books, including Lines, Making, Imagining for Real and The Perception of the Environment.