Research Catalog

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Description

1. xix, 465 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

1. This text is an integrated approach to understanding how people live, learn, work in and perceive their environments. It argues that skills are grown and incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment.

Subject

1. Anthropology > Philosophy
2. Human ecology > Philosophy
3. Psychology
4. Social evolution
5. psychology
6. senses
7. human ecology
8. cultural development
9. social anthropology
10. technological changes
11. human behaviour
12. Society
13. Anthropologie
14. Soziale Evolution
15. Philosophie
16. Psychologie
17. Umweltwahrnehmung
18. Anthropologie
19. Soziale Evolution
20. Philosophie
21. Antropologi > teori, filosofi
22. Humanekologi
23. Psykologi

Contents

1. Culture, nature, environment : steps to an ecology of life -- The optimal forager and economic man -- Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment -- From trust to domination : an alternative history of human-animal relations -- Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children -- A circumpolar night's dream -- Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals -- Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land -- Culture, perception and cognition -- Building, dwelling, living : how animals and people make themselves at home in the world -- The temporality of the landscape -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism -- To journey along a way of life : maps, wayfinding and navigation -- Stop, look and listen : vision, hearing and human movement -- Tools, minds, and machines : an excursion in the philosophy of technology -- Society, nature and the concept of technology -- Work, time and industry -- On weaving a basket -- Of string bags and birds' nests : skill and the construction of artefacts -- The dynamics of technical change -- "People like us" : the concept of the anatomically modern human -- Speech, writing and the modern origins of "language origins" -- The poetics of tool-use : from technology, language and intelligence to craft, song and imagination.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "First published 2000 by Routledge - reissued with a new preface 2011 by Routledge."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages [436]- 452) and index.