The Life of Lines
$101.79
- Paperback
172 pages
- Release Date
9 April 2015
Summary
To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold’s groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human.
In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the prin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780415576864 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0415576865 |
| Author: | Tim Ingold |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 172 |
| Release Date: | 9 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 157mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
“In The Life of Lines Ingold develops a philosophical and ecological anthropology that is at once expansive, integrative, and inclusive. His poetic narrative interlaces bodies, minds, landscapes, topographies, and perceptions in a correspondence of lines. Taking us on a journey through movement, knots, weather, atmosphere and surfaces, he guides us to a critical conclusion: to human is a verb.” - Agustín Fuentes, University of Notre Dame, USA
Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His books include Lines: A Brief History (2007), The Perception of the Environment (reissued 2011), Being Alive (2011) and Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture (2013).
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