Making creates knowledge, builds environments and transforms lives.
Anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture are all ways of making,
and all are dedicated to exploring the conditions and potentials of
human life. In this exciting book, Tim Ingold ties the four disciplines
together in a way that has never been attempted before. In a radical
departure from conventional studies that treat art and architecture as
compendia of objects for analysis, Ingold proposes an anthropology and
archaeology not of but with art and architecture. He advocates a way
of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active
materials continually answer to, or 'correspond', with one another in
the generation of form.
Making offers a series of profound reflections on what it means to
create things, on materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape
perception, animate life, personal knowledge and the work of the hand.
It draws on examples and experiments ranging from prehistoric stone
tool-making to the building of medieval cathedrals, from round mounds to
monuments, from flying kites to winding string, from drawing to writing.
The book will appeal to students and practitioners alike, with interests
in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and
design, visual studies and material culture.
