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Tim Ingold was born in 1948. He graduated in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 1970 and obtained his doctorate in 1976, based on ethnographic fieldwork (1971-72) among the Skolt Saami in Northeastern Finland. His university career in Social Anthropology ran for many years at the University of Manchester. In it, he continued his research on the circumpolar peoples of Northern Europe. Such research focused on populations that are basically hunter-herders of reindeer, gatherers and small farmers. This work has led him to a much broader interest in the relations between man and animal, nature and culture. Such a framework would never cease to extend, encompassing problems of human evolution, the relationship between language and technology, art, ecology, psychology, etc., etc.
The originality and philosophical structure of his thinking were definitively imposed worldwide by the publication of “The Perception of the Environment” (2000), a collection of essays written during the previous decade, which marked a profound change in Anthropology. Ingold obtained the chair at the University of Manchester in 1990, and in 1995 became Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology.
TIM INGOLD
Universidade da Aberdeen, Escócia
KAPIL RAJ
EHSS, Paris
Kapil Raj was born in 1949 in Amritsar, India. He studied Mathematics at the University of Delhi (1966-1970) and was awarded an MA in Philosophy in 1975. Raj received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Paris in the History and Philosophy of Science, with a thesis entitled “La notion de science chez Habermas et Kuhn”. He is currently Research Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
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Kapil Raj’s personal trajectory and academic training are reflected in his research, which combines natural and social sciences and focuses on the production and circulation of knowledge. His research themes encompass the study of the circulation of knowledge in a globalized world (the 16th to 20th century), the history of science in modern and contemporary India, and natural history, geography, ethnology, statistics and linguistics. Kapil Raj also focuses his research on administrative practices and practical know-how as well as topics such as urbanism, cosmopolitanism and empire.
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