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Redrawing Anthropology Materials, Movements, Lines Edited by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK ‘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
Drawing on expertise from various fields, this ground-breaking
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Tim Ingold; Materials in making,
volume of twelve chapters explores the potential of a graphic
Stephanie Bunn; Practice drawing writing object, Lesley McFadyen;
anthropology to change the way we think. Along the way a team of
Networks of objects, meshworks of things, Carl Knappett; Thinking
authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia contribute
through movement: practising martial arts and writing ethnography,
to key debates on what happens in making, the relation between
Rupert Cox; Learning the ‘banana tree’: self-modification through
design and performance, how people acquire bodily skills, the place
movement, Greg Downey; Performing precision and the limits of
of movement in human self-awareness, the relation between walking
observation, Brenda Farnell and Robert N. Wood; The imaginative
and imagination, and the perception of time.
consciousness of movement: linear quality, kinaesthesia, language and life, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone; Beyond A to B, Griet Scheldeman; Drawing with our feet (and trampling the maps): walking with video as a graphic anthropology, Sarah Pink; ‘Both created and discovered’: the case for reverie and play in a redrawn anthropology, Amanda Ravetz; Expanded visions: rethinking anthropological research and representation through experimental film, Arnd Schneider; Index. Includes 46 b&w illustrations
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December 2011 216 pages Hardback 978-1-4094-1774-3 £55.00 www.ashgate.com/ isbn/9781409417743