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

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

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

By Tim Ingold

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About the book

In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive 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. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of liveliho...Show more

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ISBN

9780415228329

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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