Main entry:

Ingold, Tim, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022
©2022

Description:

xxvii, 602 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
This edition published 2022. First published 2000.
This edition includes a new preface (May 2021) by the author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-585) and index.
Culture, nature, environment : steps to an ecology of life -- The optimal forager and economic man -- Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment -- From trust to domination : an alternative history of human-animal relations -- Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children -- A circumpolar night's dream -- Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -- Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land -- Culture, perception and cognition -- Building, dwelling, living : how animals and people make themselves at home in the world -- The temporality of the landscape -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism -- To journey along a way of life : maps, wayfinding and navigation -- Stop, look and listen! : vision, hearing and human movement -- Tools, minds and machines : an excursion in the philosophy of technology -- Society, nature and the concept of technology -- Work, time and industry -- On weaving a basket -- Of string bags and birds' nests : skill and the construction of artefacts -- The dynamics of technical change -- 'People like us' : the concept of the anatomically modern human -- Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' -- The poetics of tool-use : from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781032052281 (hardcover)
1032052287 (hardcover)
9781032052274 (paperback)
1032052279 (paperback)
9781003196662 (electronic)
1003196667 (electronic)

Subject:

Anthropology Philosophy.
Human ecology Philosophy.
Psychology.
Social evolution.
Anthropologie Philosophie.
Écologie humaine Philosophie.
Psychologie.
Évolution sociale.
psychology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316542
Call No.: 316542
Copy: 1
Status: Available