Being Alive Essays on Movement Knowledge and Description 1st Edition by Tim Ingold ISBN 9780415576833 0415576830

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ISBN 10: 0415576830
ISBN 13: 9780415576833
Author: Tim Ingold

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.

Being Alive Essays on Movement Knowledge and Description 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part 1: Thinking Through Movement

1. Introduction: The Primacy of Movement

   • Rethinking What It Means to Be Alive
   • Movement as Knowing and Becoming
   • The Intertwining of Perception and Action

2. Lines, Paths, and Ways of Being

   • Walking as a Way of Knowing
   • The Line as a Thread of Life
   • Journeying, Dwelling, and Place

3. Bodies in Motion

   • The Embodied Mind in Action
   • Gesture, Expression, and Sensory Experience
   • Dance, Craft, and the Art of Skilled Movement

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Part 2: Knowledge as Experience

4. Learning Through Doing

   • Apprenticeship and Tacit Knowledge
   • The Hand, the Eye, and the Mind
   • Knowledge in Action vs. Knowledge as Object

5. Ways of Describing the World

   • Language, Storytelling, and the Lived World
   • Drawing, Writing, and Mapping Experience
   • Scientific vs. Experiential Ways of Knowing

6. Time, Memory, and the Flow of Life

   • Temporal Experience and Rhythms of the Everyday
   • Memory as a Form of Movement
   • The Past, the Future, and the Ever-Unfolding Present

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Part 3: Environment, Creativity, and Life

7. Living with the Land

   • Landscapes as Interwoven Histories
   • Ecology, Perception, and the Meshwork of Life
   • Human and Non-Human Entanglements

8. Making, Crafting, and Creativity

   • The Process of Making as a Way of Thinking
   • Art, Materials, and the Agency of Things
   • Craft, Tradition, and Innovation in a Changing World

9. The Ethics of Being Alive

   • Responsibility, Care, and Relational Existence
   • Learning from Indigenous and Alternative Epistemologies
   • Rethinking Progress and Modernity Through Movement

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Part 4: Towards a New Understanding of Life

10. Rethinking Humanity’s Place in the World

• Beyond Dualism: Nature, Culture, and the In-Between
• The World as an Open-Ended Process
• The Politics of Knowledge and Perception

11. Embracing Uncertainty and Becoming

• Improvisation and the Ethics of Adaptation
• Dwelling in the Unknown
• Living Thoughtfully in a Complex World

12. Conclusion: Life as a Tapestry of Movements

• The Interwoven Threads of Experience
• Towards a Philosophy of Being Alive
• Moving Forward with Awareness and Responsibility

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