This book showcases the way a range of scholars have engaged with Tim Ingold’s opus since the publication of his ground-breaking The Perception of the Environment in 2000. Ingold’s work has become key for a variety of disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and human geography to art, architecture, design and studies of material and visual culture. As set out in The Perception of the Environment and subsequent publications, Ingold proposed an understanding of the world that placed sentient, remembering and imagining organisms, or inhabitants, some of them human, at the heart of an extensive field of socio-ecological relations. In this work, Ingold develops broad-ranging analyses of personhood, knowledge and skills, among many other topics. This volume sets out to synthesize critical scholarship drawing on Ingold’s work, to lay out its principles, methods and results, and to demonstrate its contribution to reshaping both contemporary anthropology and wider intellectual terrains. By bringing together chapters from a variety of scholars, all critically furthering Ingold’s proposals, the book advances a paradigm change occurring in various academic disciplines from “fixist” to “emergence” onto/epistemologies.
Table of Contents:
Beyond perception: Tim Ingold, anthropology and the world
CAROLINE GATT AND JAN PETER LAURENS LOOVERS
Section I: Introduction – Wind, wing, fin, water: Co-constructing relations, ontogenesis and enskilment
AGUSTÍN FUENTES
1 On the wing: Skilled practice and learning in human/avian relationships
SARA ASU SCHROER
2 The fish’s turn: Ontogenesis and technique in Amazonia
CARLOS EMANUEL SAUTCHUK
3 Displacing the in-between: Wetlands, urbanity and the colonial logic of separation
PAOLO GRUPPUSO AND FRANZ KRAUSE
Section II: Introduction – Lines against linealogy
DAVID G. ANDERSON
4 Listening to microbe-spirits dancing: More-than-imagined dreams and emerging infectious diplomacies
CÉSAR E. GIRALDO HERRERA
5 Belonging to this world: How Tim Ingold inspires two theologians
CELIA DEANE- DRUMMOND AND NORMAN WIRZBA
6 Ingold in the minor key
MARC HIGGIN AND GERMAIN MEULEMANS
Section III: Introduction – Experiment, experience, education
ANNE PIRRIE AND JOHN LOEWENTHAL
7 Living theory: Anthropology, education, and manifold relations
JAN PETER LAURENS LOOVERS
8 Learning with trees and young people in northeast Scotland
ELIZABETH CURTIS, J. EDWARD, AND JO VERGUNST
9 Corresponding with matters of pedagogy: Bauhaus, Black Mountain and beyond
JUDITH WINTER
Section IV: Introduction – Moving forward with anthropology
SARAH PINK
10 Design anthropology as a design methodology
WENDY GUNN
11 Are anthropologists makers? Towards regenerative scholarship and pluriversities
CAROLINE GATT, GLADYS ALEXIE, JOSS ALLEN, GEY PIN ANG, VALERIA LEMBO, AMANDA RAVETZ, AND BEN SPATZ
12 The Trowel and the shaping of worlds: Humble handtools, time and imagination
RACHEL J. HARKNESS AND CRISTIÁN SIMONETTI
Section V: Introduction: Movement, becomings, growth
ELIZABETH HALLAM
13 Reimagining the body-with-chronic pain through an ‘anthropology with butoh dance’: from bodily hylomorphism to somatic morphogenesis
PAOLA ESPOSITO
14 The perception of movement in (and through) seafaring
MONTSE PIJOAN
15 Upstream and downstream: A conversation on limit as education through marathon running in prison and kayaking along rivers
PAOLO MACCAGNO AND DEBORAH PINNIGER
Afterword
ERIN MANNING
About the Author :
Caroline Gatt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz, Austria.
Jan Peter Laurens Loovers is an independent researcher and curator based in Aberdeen, UK.
Review :
“Beyond Perception is a loving and creative analysis of the main themes so caringly and revealing explored throughout Ingold’s oeuvre –a wayfaring of sorts by the chapter authors, woven of Ingoldian lines and threads: embodiment, movement, place, landscape, history, becoming, knowledge, enskillment, art, education, ecology, sentience, even theology. It richly displays the enormous significance of Tim Ingold’s philosophical anthropology for understanding our existential predicaments, for it is, ultimately, about life itself, and about worldmaking and design writ large. This superb collection vividly shows why Ingold’s work is fundamental to a much-needed transition of the human sciences towards relational ontologies of emergence. Above all, Beyond Perception is a celebration of the rich intellectual journey through the landscapes of life and thought by one of today’s wisest elders of an alternative West.”
- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
“This utterly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone studying more-than-human perception and complex learning ecologies. Each chapter offers fascinating detail of relational worlds made all the more alive by the far-reaching insights of Tim Ingold.”
- Elizabeth de Freitas, Adelphi University, USA
“Beyond Perception, a collection of essays on one of the most important anthropologists of our time, is not hagiographic in any sense – which would be utterly inappropriate – but wild: like Ingold’s own work, it assembles a wide range of diverse topics and methodologies, constantly reflecting on our relation to the natural world without necessarily conforming to disciplinary divisions. The book is an exercise in thinking from and with Ingold, in drawing out lines that he started, in communicating, collaborating, and developing perspectives that sometimes diverge from Ingold but retain a distinctive feel, a methodological and philosophical freedom that he practiced and engendered. The reader has a sense of being welcomed into a unique community of looking, listening, and thinking.”
- Christian Grüny, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany
