Correspondences

Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Invitation

Part 1: Tales from the Woods
Introduction
1.1 Somewhere in Northern Karelia…
1.2 Pitch-black and firelight
1.3 In the shadow of tree being
1.4 Ta, Da, Ça

Part 2: Spitting, Climbing, Soaring, Falling Introduction
2.1 The foamy saliva of a horse
2.2 The mountaineer’s lament
2.3 On flight
2.4 Sounds of snow

Part 3: Going to Ground Introduction
3.1 Scissors paper stone
3.2 Ad coelum
3.3 Are we afloat?
3.4 Shelter
3.5 Doing time

Part 4: The Ages of the Earth Introduction
4.1 The elements of fortune
4.2 A stone’s life
4.3 The jetty
4.4 On extinction
4.5 Three short fables of self-reinforcement

Part 5: Line, Crease and Thread Introduction
5.1 Lines in the landscape
5.2 The chalk-line and the shadow
5.3 Fold
5.4 Taking a thread for a walk
5.5 Letter-line and strike-through

Part 6: For the Love of Words
Introduction
6.1 Words to meet the world
6.2 In defence of handwriting
6.3 Diabolism and philophilia
6.4 Cold blue steel

Au revoir