A Brief History
by Tim Ingold
- Author(s)
- Tim Ingold
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge Classics, 2016
- Scope
- 190 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781138640399
What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines.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. Setting out from a puzzle about the relation between speech and song, Ingold considers how two kinds of line – threads and traces – can turn into one another as surfaces form or dissolve. He reveals how our perception of lines has changed over time, with modernity converting to point-to-point connectors before becoming straight, only to be ruptured and fragmented by the postmodern world.
- Keywords
- anthropocene , art theory , walking as research
- Extra themes
- Walk / stroll / explore / hang out
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index ; first published in 2007
