Wayfaring thoughts: life, movement and anthropology Interview with Professor T. Ingold

Resumo

In the last few years, several research groups of the Urban Anthropology Nucleus(NAU) approached the array of issues addressed by British anthropologist Timothy Ingold. Those issues are considered to be transversal to different approaches and objects of NAU as well as deeply inspiring to new ways of thinking the relationships between city, ethnology, body and consciousness. This growing interest aroused among other research groups too, within and beyond the University of São Paulo, as well as the will to include Ingold’s work in graduate and undergraduate courses, something often restrained by language limitations. Addressing those demands, we´ve published in Ponto Urbe Portuguese translations of “Stop, Look and Listen. Vision, hearing and human movement” (year 2, no. 03, July 2008) and “’People like us’. The concept of the anatomically modern human” (year 5, no. 09, December 2011).