ISBN:
9781000504668
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (631 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301/.01
Schlagwort(e):
Anthropology-Philosophy
;
Human ecology-Philosophy
;
Psychology
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Preface to the 2021 reissue -- Preface to the 2011 reissue -- Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- PART I: Livelihood -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life -- 2 The optimal forager and economic man -- 3 Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment -- 4 From trust to domination: an alternative history of human-animal relations -- 5 Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children -- 6 A circumpolar night's dream -- 7 Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -- 8 Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land -- PART II: Dwelling -- Introduction to Part II -- 9 Culture, perception and cognition -- 10 Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world -- 11 The temporality of the landscape -- 12 Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism -- 13 To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation -- 14 Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement -- PART III: Skill -- Introduction to Part III -- 15 Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology -- 16 Society, nature and the concept of technology -- 17 Work, time and industry -- 18 On weaving a basket -- 19 Of string bags and birds' nests: skill and the construction of artefacts -- 20 The dynamics of technical change -- 21 'People like us': the concept of the anatomically modern human -- 22 Speech, writing and the modern origins of 'language origins' -- 23 The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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