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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...

  • Name : Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
  • Vendor : Routledge
  • Type : Books
  • Manufacturing : 2024 / 07 / 29
  • Barcode : 9781032052311
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Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
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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.



Author: Tim Ingold
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781032052311

About the Author

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.


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