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Tim Ingold
As walking, talking, gesticulating creatures, human beings generate lines wherever they go. This book explore the production and significance of lines. It investigates: speech and song in the cultures of…
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Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies…
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A renowned anthropologist’s profound and personal correspondences with the world we live in –
In this second and retitled edition of Anthropology and/as Education, Tim Ingold shows that there is more to anthropology than ethnography, and more to education than teaching and learning.
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In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the…
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In this passionately argued book, Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn…
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An interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, exposing sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.
Every year, leading anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject, and this book includes the first six of these debates, from…
To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on…
In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. This book is essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for…
Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge Univesity Press, 1986. With new introduction.
What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays…
New in paperback, this Companion provides a unique survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. A prestigious editor leads an international team of acknowledged experts in each…
Explores the potential of a graphic anthropology to change the way we think about creativity and perception, to grasp the dynamics of improvisatory practice, and to refocus the study of…
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. In bringing these three fields together, it establishes their interconnections and lays the foundations for…
A unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, exposing sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common…
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This exciting book takes a profound new approach to the study of four related disciplines and seeks to tie them together. Tim Ingold considers anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture as…
On the conclusion of the Second World War, Finland was obliged to cede its northeasternmost territory of Petsamo to the Soviet Union. The contemporary organization of the consequently resettled Skolt…
Knowledge comes from thinking with, from and through things, not just about them. We get to know the world around us from the inside of our being in it. Drawing…
This book argues that there is a fundamental identity between the disciplines of anthropology and education. Premised on the idea that generosity, open-endedness, comparison, and criticality are cornerstones of both…
Being Alive ranges over such themes as the vitality of materials, what it means to make things, the perception and formation of the ground, and the experiences of light, sound…
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of…
The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? In this book, the contributors argue that…
There is no prepared script for social and cultural life. People work it out as they go along. Creativity and Cultural Improvisation casts fresh, anthropological eyes on the cultural sites…
Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and…
Featuring contributions from leading anthropologists, this volume demonstrates how anthropology can move forward in tandem with discoveries in the biological sciences, reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and…
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In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner’s The Invention of…
Presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversity of ways of walking and the variety of meanings it can embody. This book offers…
