Lines : a brief history

Ingold, Tim 1948- (Author).

Summary: "What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this 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 takes him from the music of Ancient Greece to that of contemporary Japan, from Siberian labyrinths to Native American weaving, from Australian Aboriginal songlines to Roman roads, and from Chinese calligraphy to the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780415424264
ISBN: 9780415424271
ISBN: 9780203961155 (ebk)
ISBN: 0415424267 (hbk)
ISBN: 0415424275 (pbk)
ISBN: 0203961153 (ebk)
Physical Description: print
xii, 186 p. : ill., maps, music ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Language, music and notation -- Traces, threads and surfaces -- Up, across and along -- The genealogical line -- Drawing, writing and calligraphy -- How the line became straight.