Tim Ingold and Object-Oriented Anthropology

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ID3067801
AuthorsThiago Pinho (0000-0003-4147-6331, Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume7
Issue1
Publication date2023-07-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2366-1003 • E-ISSN: 2366-1003
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s41257-023-00092-1
OpenAlexW4385428813
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited13

Tim Ingold, while extending the radical undertaking of vitalism, with its Nietzschean matrix, puts the decentering undertaken by this philosophical tradition on a more solid foundation, opening up a new space of interobjective relations. Instead of an epistemic plunge into human categories, the goal is to move towards a broader ontological space, including other sites of meaning, such as chairs, spirits, animals, baskets, and many others. Unlike more classical anthropology, with its well-delimited Anthropos as an inevitable transcendental horizon, Ingold suggests a world where humans are not protagonists, but rather provisional negotiators within a large mesh of subjectless experiences. The model proposed in this essay distances itself from the plane of (neo)-Kantian speculation, converting its contours into something less orthodox by making room for a possible Object-Oriented Anthropology (O.O.A

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Philosophical anthropology · Sociology · Transcendental number · Vitalism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies

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