How Does an Anthropologist Figure Out Human Beings?
The Roving Anthropologist Stops, Looks, & Listens
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Step 1: Exploring & Noticing Come First
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The Little Book of Noticing is the starting point for the Field Guides. It lays out the way of seeing behind the whole shelf: slow down, look closely, look widely, and let ordinary things become visible before explaining them away.
Every Field Guide begins with one familiar thing — a card deck, a walking stick, a cup of coffee, a knot, a meal, a camper, a market — and follows it into culture, language, history, use, and meaning. 
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Books at the Center
The books I hope will last.
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Across many years, I have written about attention, embodiment, Zen, creativity, language, and the strange richness of ordinary life. These books sit closest to the center of that work.
They remain part of their regular shelves. I have gathered them here because together they say something essential about what I have spent my life noticing. |
