Lines: A Brief History

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Routledge, 14 kwi 2016 - 208

What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.

Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.

 

Spis treści

Introduction
1
1 Language music and notation
6
2 Traces threads and surfaces
40
3 Up across and along
74
4 The genealogical line
107
5 Drawing writing and calligraphy
123
6 How the line became straight
156
NOTES
175
REFERENCES
177
INDEX
185
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Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

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