Tim Ingold and the Being in Process

Tim Ingold is an English anthropologist born in 1948. His work in social anthropology has been marked by the idea of ​​placing the human being at the center of philosophy. As a varied work, it addresses the issues of landscape, language, relations with technique and architecture, anthropological theory, creativity, relationship with nature, etc.

His contribution to the understanding of societal relations with nature, where he addresses the issues of risk and safety perceptions, is the foundation of his educational approach. Thus he sees anthropology as an educational activity, through which the description of the world is accompanied by a practice of the world. A view that goes against the traditional models of genetic and cultural transmission, founded on the alliance of neo-Darwinian biology and cognitive sciences.

His relational approach that analyzes the interactions between embodied gesture – movement (skills), the perception that results in acts in context (social and environmental) explains the development of communities and the use of different resources. This view of the totality of the world leads him to a proposal of educational practice based on meeting others, in the exercise of describing others as recognition. Par Ingold the human being, exists in relationship, feels this world and lives it in motion. The world is constantly recreating, being molds itself to spaces and time as it meets.

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