Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
FROM SCIENCE to ART & BACK AGAIN: the pendulum of an environmental anthropologist
Monday October 5, 2015
Biological Sciences Building, Room 2000
Event Poster: PDF
Tim Ingold
University of Aberdeen
Abstract:
Over a forty-year career in environmental anthropology, I have found myself drifting inexorably from an engagement with science to an engagement with art. This was also a period during which science increasingly lost is ecological bearings, while the arts increasingly gained them. In this lecture I trace this journey in my own teaching and research, showing how the literary reference points changed, from foundational texts in human and animal ecology, now largely forgotten, through attempts to marry the social and the ecological inspired by the Marxian revival, to contemporary writing on post-humanism and the conditions of the Anthropocene.
