Books by Tim Ingold

Originally published: 2000. With new preface.

"A renowned anthropologist's profound and personal correspondences with the world we live in"--

In this passionately argued book, Ingold relates how a field of study once committed to ideals of progress collapsed amidst the ruins of war and colonialism, only to be reborn as a discipline of hope, destined to take centre stage in debating the most pressing issues of our time.

On the conclusion of the Second World War, Finland was obliged to cede its northeasternmost territory of Petsamo to the Soviet Union. The contemporary organization of the consequently resettled Skolt Lapp community in the larger of the resultant 'reservations', the Sevettijarvi area, is the subject of this 1976 study.

In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production.