Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

by Tim Ingold

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032052317
• ISBN13: 9781032052311
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"