1st Edition
One World Anthropology and Beyond A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold
This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships between human beings, organisms, and their environment, Ingold has become one of the most influential, innovative, and prolific writers in anthropology in recent decades. His work transcends established academic and disciplinary boundaries and his thinking continues to have a significant impact on numerous areas of research and other intellectual and artistic spheres. The contributions to this book are drawn from several fields, including social anthropology, archaeology, rock art studies, philosophy, and science and technology studies. The chapters critically engage with Ingold’s approaches and ideas in relation to a variety of case studies that include the exploration of Australian rock art, electricity in Pakistan, Spanish farmhouses and sensory dimensions of educational practices. Emphasising the importance of dialogue and debate, there is also a response to the contributions by Tim Ingold himself. The volume will appeal to a wide range of audiences and provide new avenues of theoretically informed anthropological exploration into the many realities and expressions of human life.
Part I – Introduction
Tim Ingold – biographical and research overview
Martin Porr, Niels Weidtmann, and Tim Ingold
1 Being alive and educating attention: The persistent value of the work of Tim Ingold
Martin Porr and Niels Weidtmann
Part II – Knowing, perceiving, and attending
2 Introduction: Knowing, perceiving, and attending
Niels Weidtmann and Martin Porr
3 Anthropology with Tim Ingold and friends
Stephanie Bunn
4 Artworks at a threshold: Thinking with Tim Ingold about art gallery technicians
Laura Harris
5 In the slipstream of participation: Attention and intention in anthropological fieldwork
Anna Bloom-Christen
6 Historicising creativity: An interdisciplinary perspective between the social and natural sciences
Dylan Gaffney and Leor Zmigrod
Part III – Anthropology and/as attention
7 Introduction: Anthropology and/as attention
Niels Weidtmann and Martin Porr
8 Experiences from within: Contributions of outdoor education to anthropology
Melanie Greiner
9 Decolonising anthropology and/as education?
Antony Pattathu
Part IV – The life of lines, dwelling and growing
10 Introduction: The life of lines, dwelling and growing
Martin Porr and Niels Weidtmann
11 Making (of) ecology. Philosophical perspectives on Tim Ingold
Ralf Gisinger
12 Making and growing: The lives and deaths of a tree and a house in the Spanish dehesa
Maike Melles
13 Living along infrastructural lines: Following electricity in Hunza
Quirin Rieder
Part V – Art beyond the image
14 Introduction: Art beyond the image
Martin Porr and Niels Weidtmann
15 ‘Dwelling’ with Siberian rock art
Irina A. Ponomareva
16 Rock art conservation and living heritage: Performance and the transformation of ‘paintings’ in rock art
Ana Paula Motta
17 Many ways to see yams: An ecological analysis of Yam Figures in the Aboriginal rock art of Balanggarra Country, Northeast Kimberley, Western Australia
Emily Grey and Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation
18 Ontological reversals, correspondences, and archaeological ‘arts of noticing’
Benjamin Alberti
Part VI – Conclusion
19 Let the world teach! Some closing reflections
Tim Ingold
Biography
Martin Porr is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Western Australia.
Niels Weidtmann, philosophy, is Director of the College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
