Ways of walking
ethnography and practice on foot
by Tim IngoldDespite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers.
"Ways of Walking" combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'techn.
- Format
- 218 pages, Hardcover
- First published
- 2008
- Publishers
- Ashgate
- Subjects
- Human beings·Effect of environment on·Walking·Cross-cultural studies·Geographical perception·Cross-cultural studies
- Language
- English
The best book I have read this year. It is such a relief to find a book that is theoretically rigorous and empirically interesting.
About Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold (born 1948) is a British social anthropologist, currently Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He was educated at Leighton Park School and Cambridge University. He is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His bibliography includes The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Routledge, 2000, which is a collection of essays, some of which had been published earlier....
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