Tim Ingold

Tim Ingold is currently Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He began his professional career at the University of Manchester, where he was to spend 25 years before moving to Aberdeen in 1999 to establish Scotland’s youngest Department of Anthropology. He retired in 2018.
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Ingold has carried out ethnographic fieldwork with Sámi and Finnish people in Lapland, leading to broader comparative interests in the peoples of the circumpolar North, as well as in the role of animals in human society, in issues of human ecology and evolutionary theory, and in environmental perception and skilled practice.
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In his later work on lines and linearity, Ingold has laid out new field of inquiry at the intersection of anthropology, archaeology, art, and architecture. This has since broadened out to wider questions surrounding perception and imagination, education for conviviality, and intergenerational relations. His latest book, The Rise and Fall of Generation Now, was published in 2024. A Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Ingold was made a CBE in 2022 for his contributions to Anthropology.