The Rise and Fall of Generations

Anthropology by Oxford University

Oct 2, 202348:06Education

Does life take you any nearer to your ancestors or does it draw you ever further away from them? Tim Ingold discusses his new work ‘The Rise and Fall of Generation Now’ in which he reverses the perspectives on generation...

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