Timothy Ingold, CBE, FBA, FRSE is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organization in the circumpolar North, animals in human society, human ecology and evolutionary theory, and environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture.