Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture.

His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018) and Correspondences (2020). 

Tim Ingold’s Correspondences

A new publication from member Tim Ingold: Correspondences. “We want to correspond with people, with things, with the earth, despite all the toil and trouble they bring. We want to live in the moment. This doesn’t mean being stuck in a halfway house of the present, between past and future. It means responding to more…

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