Being Alive: Essays On Movement, Knowledge And Description

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Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions & 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 & formation of the ground the mingling of earth & sky in the weather-world the experiences of light sound & feeling the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge & the potential of drawing to unite observation & 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 & description as

Dimensions not just of being in the world but of being alive to what is going on there