The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Ingold Tim
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Ingold Tim In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their…
Specifikacia The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Ingold Tim
The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill Ingold Tim
In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill.
To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. They are thus as much biological as cultural. 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,