This exciting new volume focuses on how humans inhabit their environment, considering 'techniques of the body' and walking behaviours to better understand the variety of embodied meanings. Its original collection of work has contributions from anthropologists, sociologists, geographers and specialists in education and architecture offering a broad readership of new, innovative and previously overlooked ideas.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst; Before a step too far: walking with Batek hunter-gatherers in the forests of Pahang, Malaysia, Lye Tuck-Po; Walking stories: leaving footprints, Allice Legat; The dilemmas of walking: a comparative view, Thomas Widlok; Feet following hooves, Pernille Gooch; Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: perambulatory practice, sight and the sense of belonging, Kenneth R. Olwig; Listen to the sound of time: walking with saints in an Andalusian village, Katrín Lund; Taking a trip and taking care in everyday life, Jo Lee Vergunst; Walking through ruins, Tim Edensor; Walking out of the classroom: learning on the streets of Aberdeen, Elizabeth Curtis; Enchantment engineering and pedestrian empowerment: the Geneva case, Sonia Lavadinho and Yves Winkin; 'Taking a line for a walk': walking as an aesthetic practice, Raymond Lucas; A collectable topography: walking, remembering and recording mountains, Hayden Lorimer and Katrín Lund; Index.