Tim Ingold
| Timothy Ingold FBA FRSE | |
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| Born |
1 November 1948 Kent, England |
| Residence | Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (B.A., Ph.D.) |
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| Discipline | Social anthropology |
Tim Ingold FBA FRSE Dr h.c (born 1 November 1948) is a British anthropologist, and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
He was educated at Leighton Park School in Reading, UK and his father was the world-renowned mycologist Cecil Terence Ingold. He attended Churchill College, Cambridge, initially studying natural sciences but shifting to anthropology (BA in Social Anthropology 1970, PhD 1976). His doctoral work was conducted with the Skolt Saami of northeastern Finland, studying their ecological adaptations, social organisation and ethnic politics. Ingold taught at the University of Helsinki (1973–74) and then the University of Manchester, becoming Professor in 1990 and Max Gluckman Professor in 1995. In 1999 he moved to the University of Aberdeen. in 2015 he received the honorary doctorate by Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany). He has four children.
His interests are wide ranging and his scholarly approach is individualistic. They include environmental perception, language, technology and skilled practice, art and architecture, creativity, theories of evolution in anthropology, human-animal relations, and ecological approaches in anthropology.
Early concern was with northern circumpolar peoples, looking comparatively at hunting, pastoralism and ranching as alternative ways in which such peoples have based a livelihood on reindeer or caribou.
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