CONTENTS
List of figures viii
Acknowledgements x
Preface to 2011 Reissue xv
General introduction 1
PART I: LIVELIHOOD
Introduction to PART I 9
Chapter One Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life 13
Chapter Two The optimal forager and economic man 27
Chapter Three Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment 40
Chapter Four : From trust to domination: an alternative history of human—animal relations 61
Chapter Five : Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children 77
Chapter Six A circumpolar night's dream 89
Chapter Seven Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals 111
Chapter Eight Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land 132
PART II: DWELLING
Introduction to PART II 153 ~'
Chapter Nine Culture, perception and cognition 157
Chapter Ten Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world 172
Chapter Eleven The temporality of the landscape 189
Chapter Twelve Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism 209
Chapter Thirteen To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation 219
Chapter Fourteen Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement 243
PART III: SKILL
Introduction to PART III 289
Chapter Fifteen Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology 294 .
Chapter Sixteen Society, nature and the concept of technology 312
Chapter Seventeen Work, time and industry 323
Chapter Eighteen On weaving a basket 339
Chapter NineteenOf string bags and birds' nests: skill and the construction of artefacts 349 \
Chapter Twenty The dynamics of technical change 362
Chapter Twenty-one 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human 373
Chapter Twenty-two Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' 392
Chapter Twenty-three The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and
intelligence to craft, song and imagination 406
Notes 420
References 436
Index 454