Lines: A Brief History
Tim Ingold
ISBN 10: 1138640395 ISBN 13: 9781138640399
Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016
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Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 12. Weight in Grams: 266. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781138640399
Synopsis:
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.
Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
About the Author:
Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Lines: A Brief History
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New