Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed...
Humanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and an environmental crisis of planetary proportions. How can we fashion a world that has room for everyone, for generations to come? What are the possibilities, in such a world, of collective human life? These are urgent questions, and no discipline is better placed to address them than anthropology. It does so by bringing to bear the wisdom and experience of people everywhere, whatever their backgrounds and walks of life.
In this passionately argued book, Tim Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing intellectual, ethical and political issues of our time. He shows why anthropology matters to us all.
Introducing Polity’s Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.
作者简介
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Tim Ingold is the author of over fifteen books covering topics from evolution and social life to creativity and perception. He is a fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His work has been read across the globe and translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Estoni...
Tim Ingold is the author of over fifteen books covering topics from evolution and social life to creativity and perception. He is a fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His work has been read across the globe and translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Estonian, Finnish, Polish, German, and many other languages.
The kind of anthropology I propound here… is not to interpret or explain the ways of others; not to put them in their place or consign them to the ‘already understood’. It is rather to share in their presence, to learn from their experiments in living, and to bring this experience to bear on our own imaginings of what human life could be like, its future conditions and possibilities. Anthropology, for me, thrives on this engagement of imagination and experience… My kind of anthropology, indeed, is not in the business of ‘knowledge production’ at all. It aspires to an altogether different relation with the world. For anthropologists as for the people among whom they work, the world is not the object of study but its milieu. They are, from the start, immersed in its processes and relations.... (查看原文)
Westerner, it turns out, are always conspicuous by the absence. For in truth, they have never existed. Despite strident assertions of the universal values of modernity, by philosophers and statesmen alike, it is not practicably possible to live by them. Cosmopolitan, rational and uncompromisingly self-interested, belong nowhere and to no-one, the modern wester is a figment of our imagination (49). (查看原文)
「Further Reading Introductions to social and cultural anthropology Joy Hendry. An Introduction to Social Anthropology: Sharing Our Worlds. New York: Palgrave, 2016. John Monaghan and Peter Just. Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introductio...
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0 有用 苏诺 2024-06-12 04:49:35 美国
第一、二章和第五章带来了比较深的启发。作者把我心里一直在想的但是说不清楚的事说清楚了。整本书也可以看作是对nature vs. nurture这个二元对立一个比较深的讨论。是对我个人而言很重要的一本书，常读常新。
0 有用 锂漎渮🏄🏻 2022-09-10 12:01:09 北京
林叶和张帆老师推荐。有差异才有对话，有对话才有世界，人类塑造彼此，去向陌生人学习智慧。确实是很热血的书。
0 有用 梵子 2024-06-09 01:39:40 四川
依然可以让我审视自己的生活。
5 有用 Adieudusk 2018-10-28 12:14:55
1:回顾了人类学的历史，发展，根本的问题和困境，与其他学科的关系；2:反思人类学，和其他近现代学科，人文与科学造成的人与世界分离，本质上的控制、利用、强迫式理论框架想象；3:未来的方向，共同参与、共生的学术方式。4:合我的胃口，但按照他的思想开展研究，我的学院和老师全体会把我踢出去。5:反思很深刻，梳理很清楚。我和丫头说，这本书讲我们这个世界现在许多问题怎么来的？控制世界的西方的思想都有些什么根本... 1:回顾了人类学的历史，发展，根本的问题和困境，与其他学科的关系；2:反思人类学，和其他近现代学科，人文与科学造成的人与世界分离，本质上的控制、利用、强迫式理论框架想象；3:未来的方向，共同参与、共生的学术方式。4:合我的胃口，但按照他的思想开展研究，我的学院和老师全体会把我踢出去。5:反思很深刻，梳理很清楚。我和丫头说，这本书讲我们这个世界现在许多问题怎么来的？控制世界的西方的思想都有些什么根本问题？丫头说她也读，刚好明年他们开人类学课。我很推荐高中生本科生读这本书。 (展开)
0 有用 sumi 2021-02-26 14:22:05
anthropology as critical phenomenology