Paperback • 2011 • English

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

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By Tim Ingold

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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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9780415617475

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2011

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English

Original title

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

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Paperback

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