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Research Statement — Tim Ingold

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My research career can be divided roughly into four phases: the first from 1970 to 1988, the second from 1988 to 2002, the third from 2002 to 2018, and the fourth from 2018 and continuing. I The first phase began with my doctoral research among Skolt Sami people in the far northeast of Finland. I had gone there to study the local-level ethnopolitics of a small and apparently endangered minority, but soon became caught up in what, for the people themselves, were much more pressing questions surrounding the management of their reindeer herds and the contingencies of making ends meet in an environment that otherwise offered meagre returns from fishing, berry-gathering and casual labour on road-building sites. These questions became the subject of my doctoral dissertation, and my first book (The Skolt Lapps today, 1976). Arriving at the University of Manchester in 1974 as a newly appointed lecturer in social anthropology, I was required to teach classes in ecological anthropology, and soon

Research Statement My research career can be divided roughly into four phases: the first from 1970 to 1988, the second from 1988 to 2002, the third from 2002 to 2018, and the fourth from 2018 and continuing. I The first phase began with my doctoral research among Skolt Sami people in the far northeast of Finland. I had gone there to study the local-level ethnopolitics of a small and apparently endangered minority, but soon became caught up in what, for the people themselves, were much more pressing questions surrounding the management of their reindeer herds and the contingencies of making end

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