[PDF] Being Alive On Land eBook

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136735437

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Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern. Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world, the experiences of light, sound and feeling, the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge, and the potential of drawing to unite observation and description. Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life. Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of being alive to what is going on there.

Author : Tim Ingold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000489469

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Anthropology is a disciplined inquiry into the conditions and potentials of human life. Generations of theorists, however, have expunged life from their accounts, treating it as the mere output of patterns, codes, structures or systems variously defined as genetic or cultural, natural or social. Building on his classic work The Perception of the Environment, Tim Ingold sets out to restore life to where it should belong, at the heart of anthropological concern. Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials; what it means to make things; the perception and formation of the ground; the mingling of earth and sky in the weather-world; the experiences of light, sound and feeling; the role of storytelling in the integration of knowledge; and the potential of drawing to unite observation and description. Our humanity, Ingold argues, does not come ready-made but is continually fashioned in our movements along ways of life. Starting from the idea of life as a process of wayfaring, Ingold presents a radically new understanding of movement, knowledge and description as dimensions not just of being in the world, but of being alive to what is going on there. This edition includes a new preface by the author.

Author : Naomi Adelson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802083265

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A critical anthropological analysis of health theory with specific reference to the James Bay Cree. The author argues that definitions of health are not simply reflections of physiological soundness but convey broader cultural and political realities.

Author : Ray Robertson
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1771960957

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A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

Author : Dr. Epstein
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1781804567

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Trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people; it is the bedrock of our psychology. Death and illness touch us all, but even the everyday sufferings of loneliness and fear are traumatic. In The Trauma of Everyday Life renowned psychiatrist and author of Thoughts Without a Thinker Mark Epstein uncovers the transformational potential of trauma, revealing how it can be used for the mind's own development. Epstein finds throughout that trauma, if it doesn't destroy us, wakes us up to both our minds' own capacity and to the suffering of others. It makes us more human, caring and wise. It can be our greatest teacher, our freedom itself, and it is available to all of us. Western psychology teaches that if we understand the cause of trauma, we might move past it while many drawn to Eastern practices see meditation as a means of rising above, or distancing themselves from, their most difficult emotions. Both, Epstein argues, fail to recognize that trauma is an indivisible part of life and can be used as a tool for growth and an ever deeper understanding of change. When we regard trauma with this perspective, understanding that suffering is universal and without logic, our pain connects us to the world on a more fundamental level. Guided by the Buddha's life as a profound example of the power of trauma, Epstein's also closely examines his own experience and that of his psychiatric patients to help us all understand that the way out of pain is through it.

Author : Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0887555829

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Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University, she has been a subject of documentary films, books, and numerous articles. She led the Innu campaign against NATO’s low-level flying and bomb testing on Innu land during the 1980s and ’90s, and was a key respondent in a landmark legal case in which the judge held that the Innu had the “colour of right” to occupy the Canadian Forces base in Goose Bay, Labrador. Over the past twenty years she has led walks and canoe trips in nutshimit, “on the land,” to teach people about Innu culture and knowledge. Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive began as a diary written in Innu-aimun, in which Tshaukuesh recorded day-to-day experiences, court appearances, and interviews with reporters. Tshaukuesh has always had a strong sense of the importance of documenting what was happening to the Innu and their land. She also found keeping a diary therapeutic, and her writing evolved from brief notes into a detailed account of her own life and reflections on Innu land, culture, politics, and history. Beautifully illustrated, this work contains numerous images by professional photographers and journalists as well as archival photographs and others from Tshaukuesh’s own collection.

Author : Aaron Sams
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557294231

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The purpose of this book is to improve the lives of individuals by empowering them with the tools necessary to be a.l.i.v.e. (always living in victorious experiences). This is accomplished by providing relevant teachings concerning the topics of salvation; understanding what to do after you've been saved, discovering GOD's purpose for your life, studying the Bible, faith, prayer, praise and worship, unconditional love, grace, holiness, patience, forgiveness, wisdom, righteousness, power and authority, church, communion, fasting, tithing, baptism, evangelism, compassion, and generosity. These chapters are designed so that you can apply the material into your life in order to develop a close relationship with GOD, and to experience the benefits and the privileges that He offers to us as His children that enable us to fulfill our purpose, and to accomplish our goals and dreams.

Author : Brian Hancock
Publisher : Nomad Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1619304287

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Diving off a Jamaican waterfall, evading a charging black rhino in the veldt, running naked through the streets of South Africa, nearly drowning off the coast of Brazil—such adventures and many more are recounted in this personal collection of travel essays about one man's journey following the cardinal winds. Infused with a dry sense of humor and an observant sense of place, these stories cascade in a torrent of thrilling events and breathtaking wonder.

Author : S. Roy Kaufman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725269910

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Rural communities depend on the health of the agrarian cultures that compose them. These cultures grow out of the symbiotic relationship between a particular landscape and the human community that lives on and uses the land. Agrarian cultures had their origin in the development of agriculture and gave birth to the civilizations and empires of history. Based on the exercise of hierarchical power characteristic of their nature, empires and civilizations are always a threat to the welfare of their agrarian cultures, that by nature tend to be local, relational, reciprocal, and ecological. This is the story of the three Anabaptist agrarian cultures--Swiss German, Low German, and Hutterian--of the Freeman, South Dakota, rural community, and their sojourn within the empires of civilization through the centuries. More specifically, this is the story of their birth, growth, maturation, and death (or rebirth?) in the particular landscape of the Great Plains to which they came from Russia in the 1870s. Here we see the agrarian cultures' struggle to adapt to the new environment of the Great Plains and to maintain their unique identity while living within American society. This is the drama of a rural community's life cycle!

Author : Jean C. Fletcher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1453513191

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This is the third in a series of three books which chronicles my life experiences in being brought from duality into oneness in God. Beginning chronologically where the second book ends, it includes new insights and experiences on my journey from deception as Eve to the birthing of the Son as Mary and from glory to glory on into the fullness of God. The cover photo of the two converging train tracks symbolizes my growth from natural to spiritual the two coming together to form one in newness of life.