Production

Making: Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture

【Editor's Recommendation】
Making creates knowledge, builds environments, and transforms lives. Anthropology, archaeology, art, and architecture all share a way of making. In this stimulating book, Tim Ingold connects these four disciplines in an unprecedented way. Rather than viewing art and architecture as objects to be cataloged for anthropological or archaeological analysis, he advocates a way of thinking through making, in which sentient practitioners and active material materials continually respond to or "intercommunicate" with each other in the generation of form.
【Content Introduction】
Sculpture, handwriting, painting, weaving, building, playing a musical instrument, flying a kite, and storytelling can all be considered making. This book systematically proposes the concept of "making" that converges across anthropology, archaeology, art, and architecture. It advocates for exploring knowledge through open interdisciplinary dialogue, through the internal understanding of "learning by doing" and "the unity of knowledge and action," and for engaging in transdisciplinary thinking, action, and research. Discussions on topics such as materials and form, the meaning of design, landscape perception, animacy, personal knowledge, and handwork are combined with production cases and experiments from diverse perspectives: from prehistoric stone tool making to medieval cathedral construction, from round mounds to monuments, from kite flying to string winding, from drawing to writing, and so on. The disciplinary perspectives involved are not limited to anthropology, archaeology, art, and architecture, but also include literature, philosophy, phenomenology, psychology, biology, ecology, and more.

2025-01-01

江苏凤凰美术出版社

297

9787574126046