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Book review: Being Alive, by Tim Ingold
Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description by Tim Ingold. Reviewed by Sharon Blackie. This review appeared in Issue 1 (May 2012) of EarthLines Magazine. In the world of anthropology, Tim Ingold is unquestionably a star. Outside that world, his work is quite well known in selected related academic circles – but once you … Continue reading
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We are grateful to Tim Halpin for another of the rather unusual posts from his blog, Read by the River – subtitled ‘Book reviews on location’. Tim has a new take on book reviewing: ’I don’t read books just anywhere. The location has to be appropriate somehow. Maybe there’s an obvious connection between the setting of … Continue reading
Here is an article that I wrote recently for the Transition Network (see http://www.transitionnetwork.org/stories/guest-blogger/2012-05/croft) about our crofting lives here in the Outer Hebrides, and that may be of interest to readers of the EarthLines blog. One of our kitchen windows, in this crofthouse in the farthest western reaches of the Isle of Lewis in the … Continue reading
This article was originally posted on Charlotte Du Cann’s ‘Writing in Transition’ blog a couple of weeks ago. It raises a number of interesting questions about land use, resilient communities and the food we choose to eat. Charlotte Du Cann is a writer and community activist and works in conmmunications for the grassroots organisations, Transition Network … Continue reading
