The Life Of Lines

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317539346
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Lines written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social. This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317231651
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lines written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509544127
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Correspondences written by Tim Ingold and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with whom, and with which, we dwell upon the earth. In this book, anthropologist Tim Ingold corresponds with landscapes and forests, oceans and skies, monuments and artworks. To each he brings the same spontaneity of thought and observation, the same intimacy and lightness of touch, but also the same affection, longing and care that, in the days when we used to write letters by hand, we would bring to our correspondences with one another. The result is a profound yet accessible inquiry into ways of attending to the world around us, into the relation between art and life, and into the craft of writing itself. At a time of environmental crisis, when words so often seem to fail us, Ingold points to how the practice of correspondence can help restore our kinship with a stricken earth.

Author : Dave Meyer
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0446566748
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Lines written by Dave Meyer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with encouraging and thought-provoking quotes and meditations, Life Lines combines practical advice and passages from Scripture to help readers grow in faith and overcome life's obstacles.

Author : Chetan Parkyn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781507687185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lines, a 21st Century View of the Iching the Chinese Book of Changes written by Chetan Parkyn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential Human Design Companion Book and IChing Oracle. In 1967, the first I'Ching book, The Book of Changes, was published in English. The Book of Changes detailed the 64 hexagrams from the Chinese I'Ching in great detail, giving the Western world powerful insights into the archetype of humanity In 1987, a new science of personal discovery, Human Design, was conceived: Human Design. Human Design is a synthesis ancient wisdom traditions including Eastern and Western astrology, the Chinese I'Ching, the Hindu Chakra system and the Judaic Kaballah, and two modern sciences: neutrino physics and an understanding of the human genetic code. Human Design gives us an extraordinary in-depth understanding of the possibilities for mankind, particularly in these changing times. In his new book, The Book of Lines, Chetan Parkyn, a Human Design teacher and practitioner for over 22 years, shares a modern day explanation of the Chinese I'Ching as it relates to Human Design, and also as a standalone version of the IChing...in clear, straightforward language. The Book of Lines is a 21st century view of the I'Ching and gives the reader a deep and practical way to understand who they are, how they are energetically configured, and the power they naturally carry and share with the world. This modern-day, easy-to-understand manual is an important companion guide for anyone who uses the Chinese I'Ching and Human Design.

Author : Martha Sigall
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578067497
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living Life Inside the Lines written by Martha Sigall and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's account of the wild and wacky teams that created cartoon classics for Warner Bros. and MGM Animation

Author : Alan Zweibel
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356837
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laugh Lines written by Alan Zweibel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy. Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where he penned classic material for Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and all of the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players. From SNL, he went on to have a hand in a series of landmark shows—from It’s Garry Shandling’s Show to Curb Your Enthusiasm. Throughout the pages of Laugh Lines Zweibel weaves together his own stories and interviews with his friends and contemporaries, including Richard Lewis, Eric Idle, Bob Saget, Mike Birbiglia, Sarah Silverman, Judd Apatow, Dave Barry, Carl Reiner, and more. The book also features a charming foreword from his friend of forty-five years Billy Crystal, with whom he co-wrote and co-produced the upcoming film Here Today that stars Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. Laugh Lines is a warmhearted cultural memoir of American comedy. “In Laugh Lines, Zweibel looks back, affectionately and informatively, at a career that began when he was a young deli worker grinding out jokes for old-school borscht belt comedians in his spare time, and that, after his “S.N.L.” years, included rewarding collaborations with, among others, Garry Shandling, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Larry David and Dave Barry. . . . Fascinating.” —New York Times “Any comedy fan will thrill to see the contemporary art's invention through the eyes of consummate funny man Alan Zweibel. He takes you behind the velvet rope and makes you weep for all those artists who made us laugh. Screamingly funny—also very moving. A classic.” —Mary Karr “Alan Zweibel is legendary among us comedians. He is the man who delivers comedy with an emotional clout that makes him respected and revered.” —Steve Martin

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000504662
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perception of the Environment written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers. This edition includes a new Preface by the author.

Author : Rod Andrew, Jr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807855416
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Gray Lines written by Rod Andrew, Jr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a former teacher at the Citadel, looks at the various schools such as The Citadel, Texas A & M, Auburn, Clemson, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Author : Ben Orlove
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520935896
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lines in the Water written by Ben Orlove and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-06-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment. The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable.