Almost twentyfive years have passed since Tim Ingold published his ground-breaking The
Perception of the Environment (TPE) in 2000. As set out in TPE and subsequent publications,
Ingold proposed an understanding of the world that placed sentient, remembering and
imagining organisms, or inhabitants, some of them human, at the heart of an extensive field
of socio-ecological relations, with broad-ranging analyses of how this shift affected our
understanding of personhood, knowledge and skills. TPE, and Ingolds subsequent books,
have become key works for a variety of disciplines ranging from anthropology, archaeology,
and human geography to art, architecture, design and studies of material and visual culture.
This book showcases the way a range of scholars have engaged with Ingolds opus. This is
the first book to synthesize scholarship drawing on Ingolds work, to lay out its principles,
methods and results, and to demonstrate its contribution to reshaping both contemporary
anthropology and wider intellectual terrains. In particular, the book aims to present and
further develop a paradigm change that is underway across many academic disciplines from
fixist to emergence onto-epistemologies. Each of the chapters shows how Ingolds work
has been pivotal in this. Importantly, however, each author develops this new approach in
unique ways. The book is organized into five sections addressing themes that are recurrent in
Ingolds work: i) Humans, Animals, Environment; ii) Sensibilities Beyond Science; iii)
Experiment, Experience, Education; iv) Creativity, Correspondence, Design; v) Movement,
Becomings, Growth. The book comprises fifteen chapters by a mix of established and
emerging scholars, and five section introductions by renowned academics, brought together
by an introduction by the editors, Caroline Gatt and Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, a foreword
by Tim Ingold and a concluding comment by Erin Manning.