kevlar's review against another edition
5.0
In university I was told on entering third year that 'you have all chosen to be anthropologists, and this will now forever be in your mind' or something as dramatic.
Seven years later and not in academia it's true.
This book does good to explain why. Ingold at his readable greatness.
Seven years later and not in academia it's true.
This book does good to explain why. Ingold at his readable greatness.
gracectracey's review against another edition
4.0
This was very easy to read and understand. I will note that it was awfully philosophical for claiming anthropology is not exactly philosophy :)
nur's review against another edition
well i mean the guy was right i came out understanding less than i knew at the startÂ
teelock's review against another edition
5.0
"We are forever creating ourselves and one another. Our word for this process of collective self-fashioning is history. We make ourselves historically by establishing, in the things we do, the conditions under which generations to follow will grow to maturity.
History, then, does not stand like an edifice on the pedestal of an evolved human nature. Most attempts to spell out this nature turn out on closer inspection to be but thinly disguised portraits of what their authors, steeped in the values of modernity, take to be the ideal accomplishments of humanity, including things like art, technology, science and reason"
History, then, does not stand like an edifice on the pedestal of an evolved human nature. Most attempts to spell out this nature turn out on closer inspection to be but thinly disguised portraits of what their authors, steeped in the values of modernity, take to be the ideal accomplishments of humanity, including things like art, technology, science and reason"
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