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Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

Paperback • 2011 • English

Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

By Tim Ingold

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About the book

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 theme...Show more

Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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9780415576840

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Being Alive Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

Format

Paperback

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