Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

?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

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Tim Ingold, Anna Ingold, Caroline Gatt, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

Introduction beyond perception: Tim Ingold, anthropology and the world

Caroline Gatt & Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

Part I

Introduction to Section I - Wind, wing, fin, water: co-constructing relations, ontogenesis and enskillment

Agustín Fuentes

1. On the wing: Skilled practice and learning in human/avian relationships

Sare Asu Schroer

2. The fish?s turn: ontogenesis and technique in Amazonia

Carlos Sautchuk

3. Displacing the in-between: wetlands, urbanity and the colonial logics of separation

Paolo Gruppuso & Franz Krause

Part II

Introduction to Section II ? 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 & Norman Wirzba

6. Ingold in the minor key 

Marc Higgin & Germain Meulemans

Part III

Introduction to Section III - Experiment, experience, education

Anne Pirrie & John Loewenthal

7. Living theory: Anthropology, education, and manifold relations

Jan Peter Laurens Loovers

8. Learning with trees and young people in north east Scotland

Elizabeth Curtis, J. Edward Schofield & Jo Vergunst

9. Corresponding with matters of pedagogy:  Bauhaus, Black Mountain and beyond 

Judith Winter

Part IV

Introduction to Section IV ? 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 with Gladys Alexie, Joss Allen, Gey Pin Ang, Valeria Lembo, Amanda Ravetz, and Ben Spatz.

12. Dwelling with the trowel: Humble tools and imagining the world differently 

Rachel J. Harkness & Cristián Simonetti

Part V

Introduction to Section V ? Movement, Becoming, and 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 & Deborah Pinniger

Afterword

Erin Manning