The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their...
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The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill by Ingold, Tim

The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

¥20,222

The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

¥20,222
Author: Tim Ingold
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

This edition includes a new Preface by the author.



Author: Tim Ingold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 602
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781032052274

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 Being Alive.




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