Lines
A Brief History
Price: $120.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-42426-4
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
- Pages: 200
About the Book
This is the first book to explore the production and significance of lines.
As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go: here, Ingold lays the foundations for an anthropological archaeology of the line. He investigates:
- speech and song in the cultures of Papua New Guinea, the Navaho and Meso America
- paths, trails and maps
- drawing, writing and calligraphy
- The modern and postmodern world.
Written by a leading expert in the field and including over seventy illustrations, this text offers a radically different approach to anthropological and archaeological studies, taking us on a journey which will change the way we look at the world and how we move within it.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Language, Music and Notation 2. Traces, Threads and Surfaces 3. Up, Across and Along 4. Drawing, Writing and Calligraphy 5. How the Line Became Straight Epilogue Bibliography