Correspondences by Tim Ingold [Paperback]

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Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Preface and Acknowledgements Invitation Part 1: Tales from the Woods Introduction 1.1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia... 1.2 Pitch-black and firelight 1.3 In the shadow of tree being 1.4 Ta, Da, Ça Part 2: Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling Introduction 2.1 The foamy saliva of a horse 2.2 The mountaineer's lament 2.3 On flight 2.4 Sounds of snow Part 3: Going to Ground Introduction 3.1 Scissors paper stone 3.2 Ad coelum 3.3 Are we afloat? 3.4 Shelter 3.5 Doing time Part 4: The Ages of the Earth Introduction 4.1 The elements of fortune 4.2 A stone's life 4.3 The jetty 4.4 On extinction 4.5 Three short fables of self-reinforcement Part 5: Line, Crease and Thread Introduction 5.1 Lines in the landscape 5.2 The chalk-line and the shadow 5.3 Fold 5.4 Taking a thread for a walk 5.5 Letter-line and strike-through Part 6: For the Love of Words Introduction 6.1 Words to meet the world 6.2 In defence of handwriting 6.3 Diabolism and philophilia 6.4 Cold blue steel Au revoir