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The Perception of the Environment : essays on livelihood, dwelling & skill /Tim Ingold

By: Ingold, TimContributor(s): Ingold, TimMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Segment Book Distributors | :22, Prakash Deep 1st Floor Delhi Medical Association Road Daryaganj New Delhi Publication details: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011Description: xix, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415617475Subject(s): Social sciences | Sociology & anthropology | Human ecology -- Philosophy | Social evolution | human ecology | human behaviour | Society | cultural developmentDDC classification: 301.01 ING

Contents:

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: This text is an integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments. It argues that skills are grown and incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment.

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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.

This text is an integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments. It argues that skills are grown and incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment.

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