Redrawing Anthropology

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Tim Ingold; Chapter 2 Materials in Making, Stephanie Bunn; Chapter 3 Practice Drawing Writing Object, Lesley McFadyen; Chapter 4 Networks of Objects, Meshworks of Things, Carl Knappett; Chapter 5 Thinking through Movement: Practising Martial Arts and Writing Ethnography, Rupert Cox; Chapter 6 Learning the ‘Banana-Tree’: Self Modification through Movement, Greg Downey; Chapter 7 Performing Precision and the Limits of Observation, Brenda Farnell, Robert N. Wood; Chapter 8 The Imaginative Consciousness of Movement: Linear Quality, Kinaesthesia, Language and Life, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; Chapter 9 Beyond A to B, Griet Scheldeman; Chapter 10 Drawing with Our Feet (and Trampling the Maps): Walking with Video as a Graphic Anthropology, Sarah Pink; Chapter 11 ‘Both Created and Discovered’: The Case for Reverie and Play in a Redrawn Anthropology, Amanda Ravetz; Chapter 12 Expanded Visions: Rethinking Anthropological Research and Representation through Experimental Film, Arnd Schneider;

'Following upon his bold and subtle "draughtsman's contract" for anthropology in providing it with a different set of practices tied to sensory capacities of movement, experience, and the tactile, Tim Ingold here discerns his ideas in a diverse and fascinating collection by anthropologists in the realms of "art" ,the "'visual", and "performance". In so doing, he defines new coherences for anthropology as a general science.' George E. Marcus, University of California, Irvine, USA 'Drawing (in both senses) bodily trajectories in/from fleeting instants of insight and touch, these authors explore vital convergences between being and movement, perception and description, past and future. Their work reveals how we experience life itself.' Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USA