Phenomenology of Perception and Anthropology of Man in Motion
Tim Ingold reveals the general lines of an anthropology which stems from the sensitive experience of wandering. Aesthetics has a meaningful and relevant function, whereas biological paradigms allow this anthropology to emerge beyond the separation between nature and culture. It is possible to understand Ingold’s works as a continuation of the theory of culture defined by Ernst Cassirer and Aby Warburg as the anthropology of man in motion, thanks to new ethnological fields and new discoveries in biology. Ingold blends the theory of the living beings with the theory of culture. This combination presupposes to highlight the dynamical transformation of shapes, which means to renew the morphological approach. Why does the ethnological interpretation of « works of art », which are artistic creations as much as cultural documents, take a central place in this anthropology ? If phenomenology is fundamentally related to anthropology, the anthropology of art becomes decisive, because art reveals the paradigms that make this articulation possible. To a certain extend, we witness today this aesthetical turning point in anthropology.