As I have already indicated this is a book
arguing for nature. In other words, there’s a belief that the word can still
do some work. (In the text I sometimes use ‘Nature’ with a capital N when
reference is made to the idea of a fixed and single world, totally outside systems
of understanding and acting. I prefer to use ‘nature’, small n, to denote
that natures are made but not in ways that are reducible to human meaning
systems.) In the following pages, nature (certainly demoted from the
capital Nature) is alive and well and living in inner-city Birmingham, in subtropical
Africa, in laboratories, on farms, in the offices of European governments,
on allotments, and so on,
Hintchliffe - Geographies of natures
13.6.17
8.6.17
Anthopo-poetry
Does this sense of wonder, which Rorty attributes to the poet, not also lie at the root of anthropological sensibility? Like poetry, anthropology is a quest for education in the original sense of the term, far removed from the sense it has subsequently acquired through its assimilation to the institution of the school. Derived from the Latin educere (from ex, “out,” plus ducere, “to lead”), education was a matter of leading novices out into the world rather than, as commonly understood today, of instilling knowledge in to their minds.
https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.021/665
INGOLD (2014)
https://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau4.1.021/665
INGOLD (2014)
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