Just a little correction: Tim isn't anymore at Manchester, he is nowadays at
Aberdeen University.
Yrjo Engestrom
on 10.12.2000 01:28, Glick, Joseph at JGlick@gc.cuny.edu wrote:
> Mike:
>
> I've had trouble posting anything to the list. In case this doesn't arrive
> "in public" - please forward it for me and delete this introduction.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
> PS. I have just recovered from eye surgery and am seeing clearly for the
> first time in years.
>
>
>
>
> Ingold is a British, Social Anthropologist, who is Max Gluckman Professor of
> Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He edited a really
> interesting volume "Key Debates in Anthopology" (Routledge, 1996) which
> covers debates that the British Social Anthropologists have in the period
> 1988-1994. There is some really interesting stuff in there.
>
> Ingold introduces all of the sessions - here are the titles
>
> 1988 "Social Anthropology is a generalizing science or it is nothing."
> 1989 "The concept of society is theoretically obsolete."
> 1990 "Human worlds are culturally constructed."
> 1991 "Language is the essence of culture."
> 1992 "The past is a foreign country."
> 1993 "Aesthetics is a cross-cultural category."
>
> All of these debates are real debates with two sides. Ingold gives a
> generally illuminating introduction to each.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul H.Dillon
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Sent: 12/9/00 10:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Ingold?
>
> mike, Rosa,
>
> I was also unaware of Tim Ingold -- I did a couple of searches but
> could
> find nothing on the web per se although I did find a number of his books
> at
> on-line books stores with the tables of contents, etc. His work seems
> very
> interesting and relevant but
> my concern is accessibility. It seems that the availability of the work
> through electronic medium is vital to the broad participation of the
> xmca
> members. I've noticed that a number of Ingold's works are chapters in
> edited books, as Rosa has shown, and that some of them have very timely,
> apparently connected themes to what we've been working with in the
> Ilyenkov
> and ANL readings. So the brevity and relevance seem there, but what
> about
> accessibility. Is there any chance we can get permission to put one of
> his
> pieces on the mca web site??
>
> Paul H. Dillon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rosa Graciela Montes <rmontes@siu.buap.mx>
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 6:09 AM
> Subject: Re: Ingold?
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Mike Cole wrote:
>>>
>>> Paul/Rosa-- Tim Ingold from anthro seems like an interesting person
>>> for xmca. But, I continue to worry about length.
>>
>> I don't know Ingold's work but I've looked him up and see
>> several references to his work on ecological anthropology.
>> Also references to presentations at ISCRAT and an edited
>> volume of Ecological Psychology (1996) on Situating Action
>> which also sounds interesting
>>
>> Were you thinking of his book: The Appropriation of Nature
>> Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations?
>>
>> Here's some more references that caught my attention.
>>
>> Ingold, T. 1997. Life beyond the edge of nature? Or, the
>> mirage of society. In The Mark of the Social,
>> J.B. Greenwood, ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefi.
>>
>> Table of Contents for Ecological Psychology, Vol 8 (1996)
>> NUMBER 2
>> Introduction
>>
>> Situating Action 1: Truth in the Situation
>> Alan Costall and Ivan Leudar
>>
>> Situating Action II: Affordance for Interaction: The Social
>> is Material for Design
>> William W. Gaver
>>
>> Situating Action III: Acting, Dwelling, and Squatting: An
>> Ecological Approach to the Relation Between Person and Urban
>> Environment
>> Gustavo Ribeiro
>>
>> Situating Action IV: Planning as Situated Action
>> Ivan Leudar and Alan Costall
>>
>> Situating Action V: The History and Evolution of Bodily
>> Skills
>> Tim Ingold
>>
>> COMMENTARY
>>
>> Situating Action VI: A Comment on the Distinction Between
>> the Material and the Social
>> Tim Ingold
>>
>>
>
>
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