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Being alive : essays on movement, knowledge and description

Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern. 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

Print Book, English, 2011
Routledge, London, 2011