What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination at the heart of modern thought and science.
Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, and the experiences of light, sound and feeling. This edition includes a new preface by the author.
In this second and retitled edition of Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold shows that there is more to anthropology than ethnography, and more to education than teaching and learning.