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Being Alive

Ingold, Tim·2011
DOI 10.4324/9780203818336
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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 concern. Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world, the experiences of light, sound and feeling, the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the potential of drawing to unite observation and description. Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life. Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of being alive to what is going on there.

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  • The optimal path assumption is very restrictive when investigating past movement.

    “This is an assumption that is very restrictive when investigating past movement (see e.g.Ingold 2011), and many studies in archaeological path modelling over the past decade have tried to come to grip with this.”

    From Modelling of pathways and movement networks in archaeology: an overview of current approaches (2019) · cites this paper as Ingold 2011

  • The practice of wayfaring implies a completely different movement strategy than transporting trade goods or moving in a ritual procession.

    “For example, the practice of wayfaring (Ingold 2011) implies a completely different movement strategy than when transporting trade goods or when moving in a ritual procession.”

    From Modelling of pathways and movement networks in archaeology: an overview of current approaches (2019) · cites this paper as Ingold 2011

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Authors
Ingold, T.
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2011-04-19
DOI
10.4324/9780203818336
Cited by
2,621
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Language
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