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Notes on contributor
Tim Ingold is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Following 25 years at the University of Manchester, Ingold moved in 1999 to Aberdeen, where he established the UK’s newest Department of Anthropology. Ingold has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organization in the circumpolar North, on the role of animals in human society, on issues in human ecology, and on evolutionary theory in anthropology, biology and history. In his more recent work, he has explored the links between environmental perception and skilled practice, focusing on questions of movement, knowledge and description. His current research is situated at the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. He is the author of The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2017) and Anthropology: Why It Matters (2018).
Notes
1 This was the workshop Solid Fluids: New Approaches to Materials and Meaning, held at the University of Aberdeen, August 27th to 29th, 2018. The workshop was convened by Cristian Simonetti and myself, and funded by the British Academy under its International Partnership and Mobility Programme.
2 The speaker was Sasha Engelmann, and I am pleased to have the opportunity to acknowledge her contribution.
3 Based in Barcelona, Refoyo describes himself not as an artist but as a ‘geographer of thought’. See http://www.jaimerefoyo.com/index-en.html.
4 In 2015, I led a campaign to reclaim the University of Aberdeen, resulting in a published manifesto which helped to catalyse similar campaigns elsewhere. See https://reclaimingouruniversity.wordpress.com/.