From science to art and back again
The Pendulum of an Anthropologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5766767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Ingold (0000-0001-6703-6137, University of Aberdeen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 213-227 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03080188.2018.1524234 |
| OpenAlex | W2512093992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 24 |
In this article, I look back over four decades of my career as a professional anthropologist, starting with an orientation that was heavily weighted towards the natural sciences, and ending in a project that seeks to integrate anthropology with the practices of art, architecture and design. This was also a period during which science increasingly lost its ecological bearings, while the arts increasingly gained them. Tracing the journey in my own teaching and research, I show how the literary reference points changed, from foundational texts in human and animal ecology, now largely forgotten, through attempts to marry the social and the ecological inspired by the Marxian revival, to contemporary writing on post-humanism and the conditions of the Anthropocene. For me this has been an Odyssey - a journey home - to the kind of science imbibed in childhood, as the son of a prominent mycologist. This was a science grounded in tacit wonder at the exquisite beauty of the natural world, and in silent gratitude for what we owe to this world for our existence. Today's science, however, has turned wonder and gratitude into commodities. They no longer guide its practices, but are rather invoked to advertise its results. The goals of science are modelling, prediction and control. Is that why, more and more, we turn to art to rediscover the humility that science has lost
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Beauty · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Gratitude · Humanism · Natural (archaeology · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Wonder · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · History · Philosophy
Metaphor’s Tender Sympathies
Mapping the Unmappable?
Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
Transient Bodies in Hard Topographies
From Suspicion to Wonder in Journalism and Communication Research
Homelessness and nature across landscapes and disciplines
On dictators and clowns
Timbre and the "Zone of Entanglement" in Electronic Dance Music
System boundaries as epistemological and ethnographic problems
Visceral Ecologies in the Borderland
What knowledge is required to grow food? A framework for understanding horticulture's skills ‘crisis’
Taking the discussion onward
Art, craft, and the ontology of archaeological things
The Question of Adequacy, from Hermeneutics to Writing Strategies
Handle with care
Relationism as revelation or prescription? Some thoughts on how Ingold's implicit critique of modernity could be harnessed to political ecology
Le Jardin de l'Empire ou le malicieux bestiaire de l'histoire
Mapping the Unmappable
In Praise of Amateurs
The appropriation of nature
Pigs for the Ancestors
Posthumanist Performativity
Being Alive
Beyond biology and culture. The meaning of evolution in a relational world
Infrastructures, Societies and History
Textures of the Anthropocene
Infrastructures, Societies, and History [and Comments]
Making
Culture and Practical Reason
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Design Anthropology
An Anthropologist Looks at Biology
The Method of Hope
That's enough about ethnography
Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |