The Perception of the Environment

Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill

Libro realizado por Tim Ingold (2000)

Contenido:

PART I: LIVELIHOOD

Introduction to PART I
Chapter One: Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life
Chapter Two: The optimal forager and economic man
Chapter Three: Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment
Chapter Four: From trust to domination: an alternative history of human–animal relations
Chapter Five: Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children
Chapter Six: A circumpolar night’s dream
Chapter Seven: Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals
Chapter Eight: Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land

PART II: DWELLING

Introduction to PART II
Chapter Nine: Culture, perception and cognition
Chapter Ten: Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world
Chapter Eleven: The temporality of the landscape
Chapter Twelve: Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism
Chapter Thirteen: To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation
Chapter Fourteen: Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement

PART III: SKILL

Introduction to PART III
Chapter Fifteen: Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology
Chapter Sixteen: Society, nature and the concept of technology
Chapter Seventeen: Work, time and industry
Chapter Eighteen: On weaving a basket
Chapter Nineteen: Of string bags and birds’ nests: skill and the construction of artefacts
Chapter Twenty: The dynamics of technical change
Chapter Twenty-one: ‘People like us’: the concept of the anatomically modern human
Chapter Twenty-two: Speech, writing and the modern origins of ‘language origins’
Chapter Twenty-three: The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence
to craft, song and imagination