The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

Abstract

Ingold discusses how the "fundamental postulate of the book is how we understand everything relationally as a movement along a way of life" (p.xv).This postulate is key and captures how this book will either work or not work for the reader, depending upon how that reader views the world.To build upon the postulate the central claim in this book and thus of Ingold given he found his voice with this work is "that persons and things do not exist as bounded entities, set aside from their surroundings, but rather