The book entitled “Beyond Perception: Correspondences with the work of Tim Ingold”, is a collection of 23 chapters and essays that showcase the way a range of scholars have engaged with Ingold’s opus.
More than twenty years have passed since Tim Ingold published his ground-breaking The Perception of the Environment (TPE) in 2000. As set out in TPE and subsequent publications, Ingold proposed an understanding of the world that placed sentient, remembering and imagining organisms, or inhabitants, some of them human, at the heart of an extensive field of socio-ecological relations, with broad-ranging analyses of how this shift affected our understanding of personhood, knowledge and skills. TPE, and Ingold’s subsequent books, have become key works for a variety of disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology, and human geography to art, architecture, design and studies of material and visual culture.
The main aim of this book is to bring together works that advance a paradigm change occurring in various academic disciplines from ‘fixist’ to ‘emergence’ onto/epistemologies. In the introduction to the volume, Gatt and Loovers argue that Ingold’s work has been key in this current broad shift. Ingold’s work over the past 20 plus years has enabled the development of a new approach; a ‘relational’ anthropology. This is the first book to synthesize scholarship drawing on Ingold’s work and demonstrating the relevance of relational anthropology to broader political and ethical matters.
