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

by Tim Ingold

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032052279
• ISBN13: 9781032052274
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 602 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"