Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture
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Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making, and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or ‘correspond’, with one another in the generation of form. Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand. It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing. The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design, visual studies and material culture.
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- Authors
- Ingold, T.
- Corresponding author
- Ingold, Tim
- ORCID
- Ingold, Tim
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- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013-04-12
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- W4245257185
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Architecture › Architecture, Modernity, and Design
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Keywords
- making, creation, art and architecture, anthropology of art, archaeology of art, material culture, design, landscape perception, personal knowledge, stone tool production, medieval cathedrals, monuments, drawings, writing, human-environment relations
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