From Experience to Language

Towards an Affected and Affective Writing: A Conversation with Tim Ingold

  • Claire Vionnet Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Univertsität Bern
  • Tim Ingold Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7299
Keywords: affect, being affected, affective turn, perception

Abstract

A conversation with Tim Ingold on affects, vision, perception, intersubjectivity, and the affective turn.

Author Biographies

Claire Vionnet, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, Univertsität Bern

Claire Vionnet has just written a PhD between dance studies, anthropology and contemporary dance with a scholarship of the SNF. Her writing is on the Swiss dance scene (2015), the working condition of companies (2016), the interpretation of plays (2017) and the collaboration between art and anthropology (2016). In her postdoc, she will explore the intimacy of the dancing body in a research-creation. She collaborates with the Dance Studies in Bern and the project KFI of Tim Ingold in Aberdeen. Spring 2018, she is affiliated as a junior fellow to the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern.

Tim Ingold, Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

Tim Ingold is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and rchitecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015).
Published
2018-05-01
How to Cite
Vionnet, Claire, and Tim Ingold. 2018. “From Experience to Language: Towards an Affected and Affective Writing: A Conversation With Tim Ingold”. Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology 23 (May):82-90. https://doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2018.18.7299.
Issue
Vol. 23 (2018): Ethnographier les affects: captures, résistances, attachements
Section
Special Issue

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