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

This Perception of the Environment 2011 version is a reissue and ten-year-on update of the original publication. The book is a collection of essays by Professor Tim Ingold, an anthropologist based at the University of Aberdeen. The key difference between this reissue and the original is that this edition contains an additional new preface. In one sentence, the ‘fundamental postulate of the book is how we understand everything relationally as a movement along a way of life’ (p. xv). This postulate also captures how this book will either work or not work for the reader, depending upon how that reader understands their world. To explain and develop: the central claim of the essays in the book is: