A Irving
Biographic Data
| ID | 14328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Irving |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Irving |
| SIGNATURE | IRVING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5213-8234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Time, Space and Death in Familiar Places
O meu objetivo neste artigo é desenvolver um método pragmático para explorar e compreender a urgência vivida do HIV/AIDS, considerando como a subjetividade, a experiência e a memória emergem como parte da atividade prática das pessoas e do envolvimento com o seu ambiente. Para William James, o pragmatismo tem origem na palavra grega πρᾶγμα e sua referência à ação, à prática e ao movimento. Isto destaca como a nossa interação contínua e a consciên…
Envisioning the Future
Whose Cosmopolitanism?
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitan…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper’ (WB Yeats)
This article concerns deaf children and young people living in South Africa who are South African Sign Language users and who participated in an interdisciplinary research project using the medium of teaching film and photography with the goal of enhancing resilience. Specifically, this paper explores three questions that emerged from the deaf young people's experience and involvement with the project: (i) What is disclosed about deaf young peopl…
Walking
Walking is central to human experience and to the development of the species. Without walking there would be no human society, culture, history, or life, at least not in a form we would recognize. Walking is learned and enacted in many different environments—from schools, forests, and shopping malls to factories, tourist sites, and concentration camps—for many different purposes. As such, it is simultaneously a shared phylogenetic capacity and a …
Podróże dalekie i bliskie. Roz-czarowanie percepcją, wiedzą i ciałem
Pewna zbieżność doświadczeń Autora tekstu i Louisa-Ferdinanda Céline’a ukazanych w Podróży do kresu nocy– podróż z Europy do Afryki, a następnie Nowego Jorku – staje się pretekstem do snucia refleksji nad wątkami transformacji ciała i percepcji, jakie zachodzą w trakcie podróży dalekich i bliskich. Podróż jest zawsze doświadczeniem (również) cielesnym, choć zdarza się, że tę cielesność staramy się ignorować. Autor omawia tę kwestię w odniesieniu …
New York Stories
New York Stories aims to research and represent the realms of inner expression that constitute people's lived experiences of urban space but remain beneath the surface of their public activity. The capacity for a complex inner lifeworld - consisting of inner speech, inchoate trajectories of thought, unarticulated moods, random urges, unsymbolised thinking, imagination, sensation, memory - is a distinctive feature of human experience that mediates…
The Lives of Other Citizens
The capacity for a complex inner lifeworld that encompasses ongoing streams of inner dialogue and reverie, as well as non-linguistic or image based forms of thought, is an essential component of being human and central to many everyday actions and practices. Simply put, without inner expression there would be no self-understanding or social existence in any recognisable form. Despite this, it is largely a terra incognita for anthropology or is se…
Anthropology through Levinas
An anthropological commonplace since Evans-Pritchard has been that ethnographic subjects will have their rationality circumscribed by the discursive opportunities made available by a "culture." Hence, social science comes to terms with the "internal" nature of judgements (Winch). Ultimately, the relativist nature of both Winch's and Evans-Pritchard's conclusion has its source in Wittgenstein's philosophy. For Wittgenstein, "the limits of my langu…
Bridges
This article explores the relationship between the thinking, feeling, moving body, and a city's industrial architecture. It takes as its fieldwork site the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th Street bridges that dominate downtown New York, and uses this to present an ethnographic understanding of lived experience as a continuous sensory exchange between mind, body, and world. New York's bridges, towering 300 feet into the air and 7,000 fee…
Time, consumption and everyday life
I Gave My Child Life but I Also Gave Her Death
The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie and unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand and manage their condition. Nevertheless, as Nigel Rapport has pointed out in a recent edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2008: 19 (3)), interiority largely remains a ‘terra‐incognita’ for social science, while an…
Strange Distance
The capacity for a complex inner life-encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and unarticulated moods-is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand, and manage their condition. Nevertheless, anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people's public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventiona…
Is it useful to talk of a ‘cosmopolitan method’
Dangerous substances and visible evidence
The capacity for a complex inner life encompassing interior dialogues, unarticulated moods, random urges and much else is an essential feature of human experience and constitutive of many actions and movements, including walking. Without such forms of inner expression there would be no social existence, at least not in a form we would recognise; nevertheless, interiority remains a 'terra incognita' for social science and raises important epistemo…
A cosmopolitan anthropology? (Respond to this article at http
The power of the between
Stoller, Paul. The power of the between: an anthropological odyssey . xi, 201 pp., illus., bibliogr . London, Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press , 2009 . £29.50 (cloth), £10.50 (paper ) Paul Stoller's latest book suggests that an anthropologist's fate is always to be located between things: between different countries, between different ways of being and apprehensions of reality, between different forms of linguistic and cultural expression, and ultim…
The Color of Pain
By focusing on artworks made by persons confronting their own mortality, this essay explores the relation between the exterior, visible colors of art and the interior experiences of pain and imagination, as mediated through the process of artistic production by persons living with a sick or unstable body. As color always contains hidden shades that are wrapped up within personal biography, the imagination, and diverse existential circumstances, I…
Ethnography, art, and death
A problem facing anthropologists, given the centrality of memory and imagination to all social life, is how to access memory and the imaginary when there is no independent access to consciousness. Moreover, the discipline has 'largely failed to distinguish itself' in response to understanding HIV/AIDS (Annual Review of Anthropology30, 2001: 163). In response to these observations I would argue that orthodox approaches are limited and we need to c…
A Sense of Things to Come
2006). A Sense of Things to Come: On the Emergent Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Anthropology. The Senses and Society: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 391-397
Paradigm for Pluralism
This article explores the work of the literary and cultural theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and acknowledges him as a new voice to social work. In a larger context the authors argue that his ideas can help the profession negotiate the tricky and unsettling transition from modernity to postmodernity. In particular the authors explore two of his key concepts-dialogue and carnival-and suggest that they offer creative and innovative ways to …
What it is like for me and other people living with HIV/Aids to be studies by researchers who are conducting projects on people
Cities
A Life Lived Otherwise
This article focuses on how people experience and understand their life and history in relation to the many other possible lives they could have ended up living. It argues that the alternative, imagined or virtual life courses that someone might have lived are an important moral framework for understanding and interpreting one's social and material situation. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with a Ugandan family, the article considers how unfoldin…
Ethnography, art, and death
A problem facing anthropologists, given the centrality of memory and imagination to all social life, is how to access memory and the imaginary when there is no independent access to consciousness. Moreover, the discipline has 'largely failed to distinguish itself' in response to understanding HIV/AIDS (Annual Review of Anthropology30, 2001: 163). In response to these observations I would argue that orthodox approaches are limited and we need to c…
Anthropology through Levinas
An anthropological commonplace since Evans-Pritchard has been that ethnographic subjects will have their rationality circumscribed by the discursive opportunities made available by a "culture." Hence, social science comes to terms with the "internal" nature of judgements (Winch). Ultimately, the relativist nature of both Winch's and Evans-Pritchard's conclusion has its source in Wittgenstein's philosophy. For Wittgenstein, "the limits of my langu…
Strange Distance
The capacity for a complex inner life-encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and unarticulated moods-is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand, and manage their condition. Nevertheless, anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people's public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventiona…
Paradigm for Pluralism
This article explores the work of the literary and cultural theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and acknowledges him as a new voice to social work. In a larger context the authors argue that his ideas can help the profession negotiate the tricky and unsettling transition from modernity to postmodernity. In particular the authors explore two of his key concepts-dialogue and carnival-and suggest that they offer creative and innovative ways to …
Bridges
This article explores the relationship between the thinking, feeling, moving body, and a city's industrial architecture. It takes as its fieldwork site the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th Street bridges that dominate downtown New York, and uses this to present an ethnographic understanding of lived experience as a continuous sensory exchange between mind, body, and world. New York's bridges, towering 300 feet into the air and 7,000 fee…
I Gave My Child Life but I Also Gave Her Death
The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie and unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand and manage their condition. Nevertheless, as Nigel Rapport has pointed out in a recent edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2008: 19 (3)), interiority largely remains a ‘terra‐incognita’ for social science, while an…
The Color of Pain
By focusing on artworks made by persons confronting their own mortality, this essay explores the relation between the exterior, visible colors of art and the interior experiences of pain and imagination, as mediated through the process of artistic production by persons living with a sick or unstable body. As color always contains hidden shades that are wrapped up within personal biography, the imagination, and diverse existential circumstances, I…
New York Stories
New York Stories aims to research and represent the realms of inner expression that constitute people's lived experiences of urban space but remain beneath the surface of their public activity. The capacity for a complex inner lifeworld - consisting of inner speech, inchoate trajectories of thought, unarticulated moods, random urges, unsymbolised thinking, imagination, sensation, memory - is a distinctive feature of human experience that mediates…
A Life Lived Otherwise
This article focuses on how people experience and understand their life and history in relation to the many other possible lives they could have ended up living. It argues that the alternative, imagined or virtual life courses that someone might have lived are an important moral framework for understanding and interpreting one's social and material situation. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with a Ugandan family, the article considers how unfoldin…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
A Sense of Things to Come
2006). A Sense of Things to Come: On the Emergent Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Anthropology. The Senses and Society: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 391-397
"Some Recent Work on Later Quaternary Geology and Anthropology, with its Bearing on the Question of "Pre-Boulder-Clay Man
A. Irving, Some Recent Work on Later Quaternary Geology and Anthropology, with its Bearing on the Question of "Pre-Boulder-Clay Man.", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 44 (Jul. - Dec., 1914), pp. 385-393
"Some Recent Work on Later Quaternary Geology and Anthropology, with its Bearing on the Question of "Pre-Boulder-Clay Man
A. Irving, Some Recent Work on Later Quaternary Geology and Anthropology, with its Bearing on the Question of "Pre-Boulder-Clay Man.", The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 44 (Jul. - Dec., 1914), pp. 385-393
A Life Lived Otherwise
This article focuses on how people experience and understand their life and history in relation to the many other possible lives they could have ended up living. It argues that the alternative, imagined or virtual life courses that someone might have lived are an important moral framework for understanding and interpreting one's social and material situation. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with a Ugandan family, the article considers how unfoldin…
What it is like for me and other people living with HIV/Aids to be studies by researchers who are conducting projects on people
Cities
Paradigm for Pluralism
This article explores the work of the literary and cultural theorist and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin and acknowledges him as a new voice to social work. In a larger context the authors argue that his ideas can help the profession negotiate the tricky and unsettling transition from modernity to postmodernity. In particular the authors explore two of his key concepts-dialogue and carnival-and suggest that they offer creative and innovative ways to …
A Sense of Things to Come
2006). A Sense of Things to Come: On the Emergent Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Anthropology. The Senses and Society: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 391-397
Ethnography, art, and death
A problem facing anthropologists, given the centrality of memory and imagination to all social life, is how to access memory and the imaginary when there is no independent access to consciousness. Moreover, the discipline has 'largely failed to distinguish itself' in response to understanding HIV/AIDS (Annual Review of Anthropology30, 2001: 163). In response to these observations I would argue that orthodox approaches are limited and we need to c…
The Color of Pain
By focusing on artworks made by persons confronting their own mortality, this essay explores the relation between the exterior, visible colors of art and the interior experiences of pain and imagination, as mediated through the process of artistic production by persons living with a sick or unstable body. As color always contains hidden shades that are wrapped up within personal biography, the imagination, and diverse existential circumstances, I…
Is it useful to talk of a ‘cosmopolitan method’
Dangerous substances and visible evidence
The capacity for a complex inner life encompassing interior dialogues, unarticulated moods, random urges and much else is an essential feature of human experience and constitutive of many actions and movements, including walking. Without such forms of inner expression there would be no social existence, at least not in a form we would recognise; nevertheless, interiority remains a 'terra incognita' for social science and raises important epistemo…
A cosmopolitan anthropology? (Respond to this article at http
The power of the between
Stoller, Paul. The power of the between: an anthropological odyssey . xi, 201 pp., illus., bibliogr . London, Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press , 2009 . £29.50 (cloth), £10.50 (paper ) Paul Stoller's latest book suggests that an anthropologist's fate is always to be located between things: between different countries, between different ways of being and apprehensions of reality, between different forms of linguistic and cultural expression, and ultim…
I Gave My Child Life but I Also Gave Her Death
The capacity for a complex inner life—encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie and unarticulated moods—is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand and manage their condition. Nevertheless, as Nigel Rapport has pointed out in a recent edition of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2008: 19 (3)), interiority largely remains a ‘terra‐incognita’ for social science, while an…
Strange Distance
The capacity for a complex inner life-encompassing inner speech, imaginative reverie, and unarticulated moods-is an essential feature of living with illness and a principal means through which people interpret, understand, and manage their condition. Nevertheless, anthropology lacks a generally accepted theory or methodological framework for understanding how interiority relates to people's public actions and expressions. Moreover, as conventiona…
Time, consumption and everyday life
Bridges
This article explores the relationship between the thinking, feeling, moving body, and a city's industrial architecture. It takes as its fieldwork site the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg and 59th Street bridges that dominate downtown New York, and uses this to present an ethnographic understanding of lived experience as a continuous sensory exchange between mind, body, and world. New York's bridges, towering 300 feet into the air and 7,000 fee…
Anthropology through Levinas
An anthropological commonplace since Evans-Pritchard has been that ethnographic subjects will have their rationality circumscribed by the discursive opportunities made available by a "culture." Hence, social science comes to terms with the "internal" nature of judgements (Winch). Ultimately, the relativist nature of both Winch's and Evans-Pritchard's conclusion has its source in Wittgenstein's philosophy. For Wittgenstein, "the limits of my langu…
The Lives of Other Citizens
The capacity for a complex inner lifeworld that encompasses ongoing streams of inner dialogue and reverie, as well as non-linguistic or image based forms of thought, is an essential component of being human and central to many everyday actions and practices. Simply put, without inner expression there would be no self-understanding or social existence in any recognisable form. Despite this, it is largely a terra incognita for anthropology or is se…
Podróże dalekie i bliskie. Roz-czarowanie percepcją, wiedzą i ciałem
Pewna zbieżność doświadczeń Autora tekstu i Louisa-Ferdinanda Céline’a ukazanych w Podróży do kresu nocy– podróż z Europy do Afryki, a następnie Nowego Jorku – staje się pretekstem do snucia refleksji nad wątkami transformacji ciała i percepcji, jakie zachodzą w trakcie podróży dalekich i bliskich. Podróż jest zawsze doświadczeniem (również) cielesnym, choć zdarza się, że tę cielesność staramy się ignorować. Autor omawia tę kwestię w odniesieniu …
New York Stories
New York Stories aims to research and represent the realms of inner expression that constitute people's lived experiences of urban space but remain beneath the surface of their public activity. The capacity for a complex inner lifeworld - consisting of inner speech, inchoate trajectories of thought, unarticulated moods, random urges, unsymbolised thinking, imagination, sensation, memory - is a distinctive feature of human experience that mediates…
Walking
Walking is central to human experience and to the development of the species. Without walking there would be no human society, culture, history, or life, at least not in a form we would recognize. Walking is learned and enacted in many different environments—from schools, forests, and shopping malls to factories, tourist sites, and concentration camps—for many different purposes. As such, it is simultaneously a shared phylogenetic capacity and a …
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper’ (WB Yeats)
This article concerns deaf children and young people living in South Africa who are South African Sign Language users and who participated in an interdisciplinary research project using the medium of teaching film and photography with the goal of enhancing resilience. Specifically, this paper explores three questions that emerged from the deaf young people's experience and involvement with the project: (i) What is disclosed about deaf young peopl…
Whose Cosmopolitanism?
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitan…
Human Nature as Capacity
What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel …
Time, Space and Death in Familiar Places
O meu objetivo neste artigo é desenvolver um método pragmático para explorar e compreender a urgência vivida do HIV/AIDS, considerando como a subjetividade, a experiência e a memória emergem como parte da atividade prática das pessoas e do envolvimento com o seu ambiente. Para William James, o pragmatismo tem origem na palavra grega πρᾶγμα e sua referência à ação, à prática e ao movimento. Isto destaca como a nossa interação contínua e a consciên…
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