TY - GEN AU - Ingold,Tim TI - Perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill SN - 0415228328 U1 - 304.2 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge N1 - 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 ER -