About the Speaker
Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus 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 architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020), Imagining for Real (2022) and The Rise and Fall of Generation Now (2023). Ingold is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2022 he was made a CBE for services to Anthropology.
About Seeds of Thought
Over the coming months, we invite you to a menu of fascinating ideas over lunch. In our talks, we invite speakers whose research explores our relationship to time and place through a variety of disciplines, ranging from biology, geology, and anthropology to art history or architecture: together, we consider the forces that shape life on our world and beyond, and ways of engaging with environmental shifts on various scales in both practical and imaginative ways.
Between October and December, we are delighted to be joined by Mary Arnold-Foster, Tim Ingold and Murdo Macdonald.
Coffee, tea, and water will be available, with sandwiches for pre-order at the Visitor Centre. Free for St Andrews Botanic Garden Friends Members, £3 for visitors
