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View article: Digital applications unlock remote sensing AI foundation models for scalable environmental monitoring
Digital applications unlock remote sensing AI foundation models for scalable environmental monitoring Open
Remote sensing AI foundation models, which are large, pre-trained models adaptable to various tasks, dramatically reduce the resources required to perform environmental monitoring, a central task for developing ecosystem technologies. Howe…
View article: A British Anthropologist in Finland
A British Anthropologist in Finland Open
I am a social anthropologist born, raised and educated in the United Kingdom. I have however carried out fieldwork in Finnish Lapland, first in 1971-2, for my doctorate, among Skolt Sámi people, and subsequently, in 1979-80, in the distric…
View article: Loss and recovery of diversity in the Anthropocene
Loss and recovery of diversity in the Anthropocene Open
Owing to the accelerating forces of globalisation, there is a perceptible reduction in diversity both ecologically and culturally. The simplification of ecosystems through industrial agriculture and infrastructural developments weakens the…
View article: Interview with Tim Ingold (April 2023)
Interview with Tim Ingold (April 2023) Open
An interview with social anthropologist Tim Ingold, emeritus professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The conversation covers different aspects of his work: the study of biology, his ties with Latin America…
View article: Forum 64: Anthropological Theories for the Twenty-First Century: A Road Map
Forum 64: Anthropological Theories for the Twenty-First Century: A Road Map Open
This “Forum” considers attitudes towards theories and theoretical knowledge among ethnologists and anthropologists. Answering questions from the forum organisers, its participants discuss the need for a common “grand theory” that would uni…
View article: Landscape, atmosphere and the sky
Landscape, atmosphere and the sky Open
This essay traces the evolution of my thinking from ecological anthropology to a synthesis of linealogy and meteorology. As my ideas developed, via concepts of landscape and taskscape, I began to think of human lives as lived along lines, …
View article: Conversations with Tim Ingold
Conversations with Tim Ingold Open
Conversations with Tim Ingold offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of Tim Ingold, one of the leading anthropologists of our time. Presented as a series of interviews conducted by three anthropologists from the Uni…
View article: On the poverty of academic imagination: a response to Bentley & O'Brien
On the poverty of academic imagination: a response to Bentley & O'Brien Open
Many years ago, I taught a course at the University of Aberdeen on the ‘4As’ of anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture (Ingold 2013). As we had been discussing flint-knapping, I invited the master-knapper, John Lord, to give a dem…
View article: How to imagine a sustainable world
How to imagine a sustainable world Open
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View article: Anthropology is good
Anthropology is good Open
Anthropology does not just study people; it studies with people, drawing them into a conversation, of concern to everyone, about how to live. But this means turning the academic model of knowledge production outside in. As a way of knowing…
View article: The rise and fall of generation now
The rise and fall of generation now Open
The rise and fall of generation now * I Before this lecture, you have all had coffee; after we've finished, we will all have lunch."Before" and "after": no expressions can be more commonplace, yet none, when you come to think about it, can…
View article: Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold
Circles and Mistakes: Interview with Tim Ingold Open
Tim Ingold is a British anthropologist, Social Anthropology Professor at the University of Aberdeen, Fellow of the British Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has explored the relationship between anthropology, archi…
View article: Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game Open
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the first instalment of Children’s Games, a series of works by artist Francis Alÿs (b. Antwerp, 1959). The ongoing project, which now numbers …
View article: On not knowing and paying attention: How to walk in a possible world
On not knowing and paying attention: How to walk in a possible world Open
Knowledge and wisdom often operate at cross-purposes. In particular, wisdom means turning towards the world, paying attention to the things we find there, while with knowledge we turn our backs on them. Knowledge thrives on certainty and p…
View article: The reindeer herdsman’s lasso
The reindeer herdsman’s lasso Open
My lasso Source: Photo by the author I have latterly found myself thinking more and more about ropes. They have come, in my mind, to epitomise everything that an object, as we usually understand it, is not. An object, we suppose, has a cer…
View article: James H. BARKOW, Leda COSMIDES and John TOOBY (eds), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; 666 pages, $77.00
James H. BARKOW, Leda COSMIDES and John TOOBY (eds), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; 666 pages, $77.00 Open
James H. BARKOW, Leda COSMIDES and John TOOBY (eds), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; 666 pages, $77.00. An article from journal Culture (Volume 14, Number 1,…
View article: Introducing Solid Fluids
Introducing Solid Fluids Open
This issue opens an inquiry into the tension between solidity and fluidity. This tension is ingrained in the Western intellectual tradition and informs theoretical debates across the sciences and humanities. In physics, solid is one phase …
View article: A Solid Fluids Lexicon
A Solid Fluids Lexicon Open
In our discussions around the theme of solid fluids, we often resort to everyday words, many of them of ancient derivation and rich in association. We have decided to make a list of some of the words that come up most often – barring those…
View article: Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner
Reading and Remembering the Anthropologist James F. Weiner Open
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View article: Back to the Future with Writing and Speech
Back to the Future with Writing and Speech Open
This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language suggests a kind of time-travel. As the hand becomes dethroned in writing, the voice might be in speech, and it is with the technologies of the scribal and vocal arts that they c…
View article: Meeting art with words: the philosopher as anthropologist
Meeting art with words: the philosopher as anthropologist Open
Taking up Rietveld’s challenge for philosophers to join with artists in investigating the questions of how to live better, this comment argues (a) that this conjunction of philosophy and art is already underway in the discipline of anthrop…
View article: Ecocriticism and "Thinking with Writing": An Interview with Tim Ingold
Ecocriticism and "Thinking with Writing": An Interview with Tim Ingold Open
Over the course of an influential career spanning several decades, Tim Ingold, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen, has established himself as a preeminent voice in the field of Social Anthropology. Author of studies including…
View article: On Breath and Breathing: A Concluding Comment
On Breath and Breathing: A Concluding Comment Open
To conclude the discussion of breath and breathing in the foregoing contributions, this comment sets out from a critical perspective on embodiment. For a being that breathes out and in, should we not add to embodiment its complement of vap…
View article: Of Work and Words: Craft as a Way of Telling
Of Work and Words: Craft as a Way of Telling Open
This article takes issue with the notion of embodied knowledge by focusing on habit—the habit of craftsmen, artisans, musicians and scholars. The argument has two components. The first is to show that the habits that enable practitioners t…