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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