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Redrawing Anthropology
Materials, Movements, Lines
Edited by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, UK
Following upon his bold and subtle draughtsmans 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
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978-1-4094-1774-3
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