Beyond Perception

Caroline Gatt is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the University of Graz, Austria.Jan Peter Laurens Loovers is an independent researcher and curator based in Aberdeen, UK.

“Beyond Perception is a loving and creative analysis of the main themes so caringly and revealing explored throughout Ingold’s oeuvre –a wayfaring of sorts by the chapter authors, woven of Ingoldian lines and threads: embodiment, movement, place, landscape, history, becoming, knowledge, enskillment, art, education, ecology, sentience, even theology. It richly displays the enormous significance of Tim Ingold’s philosophical anthropology for understanding our existential predicaments, for it is, ultimately, about life itself, and about worldmaking and design writ large. This superb collection vividly shows why Ingold’s work is fundamental to a much-needed transition of the human sciences towards relational ontologies of emergence. Above all, Beyond Perception is a celebration of the rich intellectual journey through the landscapes of life and thought by one of today’s wisest elders of an alternative West.”- Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA “This utterly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone studying more-than-human perception and complex learning ecologies. Each chapter offers fascinating detail of relational worlds made all the more alive by the far-reaching insights of Tim Ingold.” - Elizabeth de Freitas, Adelphi University, USA“Beyond Perception, a collection of essays on one of the most important anthropologists of our time, is not hagiographic in any sense – which would be utterly inappropriate – but wild: like Ingold’s own work, it assembles a wide range of diverse topics and methodologies, constantly reflecting on our relation to the natural world without necessarily conforming to disciplinary divisions. The book is an exercise in thinking from and with Ingold, in drawing out lines that he started, in communicating, collaborating, and developing perspectives that sometimes diverge from Ingold but retain a distinctive feel, a methodological and philosophical freedom that he practiced and engendered. The reader has a sense of being welcomed into a unique community of looking, listening, and thinking.”- Christian Grüny, State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Germany

• Beyond perception: Tim Ingold, anthropology and the world CAROLINE GATT AND JAN PETER LAURENS LOOVERSSection I: Introduction – Wind, wing, fin, water: Co-constructing relations, ontogenesis and enskilmentAGUSTÍN FUENTES1 On the wing: Skilled practice and learning in human/avian relationships SARA ASU SCHROER2 The fish’s turn: Ontogenesis and technique in AmazoniaCARLOS EMANUEL SAUTCHUK3 Displacing the in-between: Wetlands, urbanity and the colonial logic of separationPAOLO GRUPPUSO AND FRANZ KRAUSESection II: Introduction – Lines against linealogy DAVID G. ANDERSON4 Listening to microbe-spirits dancing: More-than-imagined dreams and emerging infectious diplomacies CÉSAR E. GIRALDO HERRERA5 Belonging to this world: How Tim Ingold inspires two theologians CELIA DEANE- DRUMMOND AND NORMAN WIRZBA6 Ingold in the minor key MARC HIGGIN AND GERMAIN MEULEMANSSection III: Introduction – Experiment, experience, education ANNE PIRRIE AND JOHN LOEWENTHAL7 Living theory: Anthropology, education, and manifold relations JAN PETER LAURENS LOOVERS8 Learning with trees and young people in northeast Scotland ELIZABETH CURTIS, J. EDWARD, AND JO VERGUNST9 Corresponding with matters of pedagogy: Bauhaus, Black Mountain and beyondJUDITH WINTERSection IV: Introduction – Moving forward with anthropology SARAH PINK10 Design anthropology as a design methodologyWENDY GUNN11 Are anthropologists makers? Towards regenerative scholarship and pluriversities CAROLINE GATT, GLADYS ALEXIE, JOSS ALLEN, GEY PIN ANG, VALERIA LEMBO, AMANDA RAVETZ, AND BEN SPATZ12 The Trowel and the shaping of worlds: Humble handtools, time and imaginationRACHEL J. HARKNESS AND CRISTIÁN SIMONETTISection V: Introduction: Movement, becomings, growth ELIZABETH HALLAM13 Reimagining the body-with-chronic pain through an ‘anthropology with butoh dance’: from bodily hylomorphism to somatic morphogenesis PAOLA ESPOSITO14 The perception of movement in (and through) seafaringMONTSE PIJOAN15 Upstream and downstream: A conversation on limit as education through marathon running in prison and kayaking along riversPAOLO MACCAGNO AND DEBORAH PINNIGERAfterwordERIN MANNING