Conversations with Tim Ingold

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible account of 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 University of Glasgow over a period of two years, the book explores Ingold's key contributions to anthropology and other disciplines. In his responses, Ingold describes the significant influences shaping his life and career, and addresses some of the criticisms that have been made of his ideas.

Over the past five decades, Tim Ingold has advanced thinking and research within the discipline of anthropology, and also made significant contributions to a wide range of debates in both the arts and humanities and the natural sciences. This book covers the entirety of Ingold's career, including his observations of human-animal relations in the circumpolar regions, his perspectives on the perception of the environment, and his meditations on lived experience in the material world.

In tracing his career, this volume also gauges the evolving state of the field of social anthropology during this period, which has grappled with its complicated historical involvement in projects of colonialism as well as environmental and social activism.

Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold's current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why It Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020), Imagining for Real (2022) and The Rise and Fall of Generation Now (2024). Ingold is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2022 he was made a CBE for services to Anthropology.

Robert Gibb teaches anthropology and sociology at the University of Glasgow. He has conducted anthropological research on the antiracist movement in France and on questions of translation and interpretation in the asylum process in France and Bulgaria. His most recent publications are 'Metaphors and practices of translation in anglophone anthropology' (Social Science Information, 2023) and 'Re-Learning Hope: On Alienation, Theory and the "Death" of Universities' (The Sociological Review, forthcoming).

Philip Tonner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow (2006), a DPhil in Archaeology from the University of Oxford (2016) and a PGDE (2006) from the University of Strathclyde. His work explores themes at the intersection of philosophy, archaeology and education. He is the author of three books, Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being (Continuum 2010), Phenomenology Between Aesthetics and Idealism (Noesis Press 2015) and Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality (Routledge 2018).