Tim Ingold
Known for his work on human-environment relations, skilled practice, and the anthropology of dwelling, challenging conventional understandings of culture.
Quotes by Tim Ingold
The line is not a static representation, but a dynamic inscription.
Anthropology is about paying attention to the ordinary, and finding the extraordinary within it.
To perceive is not to receive, but to participate.
The world is not a backdrop to human action, but an active participant in it.
Making is a process of growth, not of fabrication.
The human being is not an isolated entity, but an entangled being.
The line is not a boundary that separates, but a thread that connects.
The environment is not a resource to be exploited, but a source of life to be cherished.
To think is not to represent, but to engage.
The world is not a static object, but a dynamic process of becoming.
Anthropology is about understanding the world from the perspective of those who live in it.
Anthropology is not a science of the human, but a philosophy with people left in.
To perceive the world is to make it inhabitable.
Life is not a matter of holding still, but of staying mobile.
The meshwork is a tangle of lines, not a network of points.
We make our way through the world by walking, not by measuring.
Knowledge is grown, along with the world, rather than constructed upon it.
The task of anthropology is to understand the conditions under which people live.
In dwelling, we attend to things; we are bound with them in and through a world that is itself in motion.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire—wait, that's not mine, but in anthropology, it's the kindling of curiosity in the mesh of life.