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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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83
Citations
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World Ranking
295
National Ranking
55

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  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Tim Ingold is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the social sciences, particularly within the fields of sociology and political science, cultural studies, anthropology, geography, planning and development, and archaeology.

The primary topics addressed across Ingold's research include:

  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Posthumanist ethics and activism
  • Anthropological studies and insights
  • Foucault, power, and ethics
  • Embodied and extended cognition
  • Sociology and education studies
  • Phenomenology and existential philosophy

Frequent coauthors in Ingold's work are:

  • Cristián Simonetti
  • Antonia Spencer
  • Nigel Clark
  • Sasha Engelmann
  • Paolo Gruppuso

Common venues for Ingold's publications include:

  • Theory Culture & Society
  • In Analysis
  • Nature and Culture
  • Anthropology Today
  • Teksty Drugie

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Ingold demonstrate a focus on cultural and social theory as well as higher education, including:

  • Introducing Solid Fluids (2021), published in Theory Culture & Society
  • On not knowing and paying attention: How to walk in a possible world (2022), published in Irish Journal of Sociology
  • Ecocriticism and "Thinking with Writing": An Interview with Tim Ingold (2020), published in Ecozon European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment
  • On Building a University for the Common Good (2020), published in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education
  • The rise and fall of generation now (2023), published in Prace Kulturoznawcze

Tim Ingold has also published books with several publishers, including:

  • Llevando la vida: antropología y educación (2021) with Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado eBooks
  • Anthropologie und/als Erziehung (2022) with Wallstein Verlag eBooks
  • Media Agency - Neue Ansätze zur Medialität in der Architektur (2020) with ArchitekturDenken
  • Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game (2023) with Leuven University Press

Best Publications

  • The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill

    Tim Ingold

  • Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

    Timothy Ingold

  • The temporality of the landscape

    Tim Ingold

  • Lines: A Brief History

    Timothy Ingold

  • Materials against materiality

    Timothy Ingold

  • The Appropriation of Nature: Essays on Human Ecology and Social Relations

    Tim Ingold

  • Toward an Ecology of Materials

    Timothy Ingold

  • The Perception of the Environment

    Tim Ingold

  • Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers: Reindeer Economies and their Transformations

    Tim Ingold

  • Culture on the Ground The World Perceived Through the Feet

    Timothy Ingold

  • Rethinking the Animate, Re-Animating Thought

    Tim Ingold

  • Ways of walking : ethnography and practice on foot

    Tim Ingold;Jo Lee Vergunst

  • That's enough about ethnography!

    Tim Ingold

  • The Life of Lines

    Timothy Ingold

  • Culture and the perception of the environment

    Tim Ingold

  • Bindings against Boundaries: Entanglements of Life in an Open World

    Timothy Ingold

  • Tools, Language and Cognition in Human Evolution

    Kathleen Rita Gibson;Tim Ingold

  • Creativity and Cultural Improvisation: An Introduction

    Timothy Ingold;Elizabeth Hallam

  • Evolution and social life

    Tim Ingold

  • The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply]

    Alain Testart;Richard G. Forbis;Brian Hayden;Tim Ingold

  • Perception of the Environment

    Tim Ingold

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Alden Smith
Eric Alden Smith University of Washington
Steven J. Sherman
Steven J. Sherman Indiana University
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Marjorie Taylor
Marjorie Taylor University of Oregon
David L. Hamilton
David L. Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara
Pascal Boyer
Pascal Boyer Washington University in St. Louis
Scott D. Young
Scott D. Young University of Nottingham
John A. Lee
John A. Lee University of Sheffield
Malcolm C. Press
Malcolm C. Press Manchester Metropolitan University

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