Tim Ingold26 definitions
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Anthropology (n.) is a field of study that seeks to strive toward a generous, comparative, critical understanding of human being and knowing in the one world we all live in.
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Anthropology (n.) is philosophy with the people in.
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Dwelling (n.) is a perspective that treats 'the immersion of the organism-person in an environment or life-world as an inescapable condition of existence.
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Dwelling perspective (n.) is a perspective on man that collapses the distinction between culture and biology as artificial.
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Dwelling perspective (n.) is a perspective that challenges the idea of a cultural field distinct from the surroundings, and a perspective that delimits the notion of gene/culture coevolution.
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Embodiment (n.) is a relationship with the world not as mind acting within a body and mediated by cultural influences, but as organism-in-it-environment ever developing through its movements.
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The Environment (n.) is a world that continually unfolds in relation to the beings that make a living there.
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Environment (n.) is first and foremost defined in contrast to nature whereby nature implies 'without' human beings. Environment is relational to human or animal beings, and second, it is incomplete, not a bounded entity, but a process that is always under construction.
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Environment (n.) is, in contrast to the term nature, such that it implies the idea of beings within a world.
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Environment (n.) is incomplete. Environments are continually under construction through the activities of living beings, human or nonhuman.
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Environment (n.) is not a bounded entity, something that is already present and available for analysis independent of the beings it relates to, but rather a process.
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Environment (n.) is the idea of beings within a world. It exists only in relation to a human or animal being, not as a thing, but as something necessarily incomplete, which is to say a process continually under construction.
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Man (n.) is at once both social subject and natural object. On the one hand, he stands apart and acts on the world, on the other he is an integral part of that world.
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Meshwork (n.) is interwoven tales rather than a network of intersecting routes fail along which life is lived' forming knots tied from multiple interlaced strands of movement and growth.
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Nature (n.) is a problematic western idea implying the absence of human beings.
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Nomothetic inquiry (n.) is aimed at arriving at general propositions or theoretical statements. It idiographic inquiry is aimed at documenting the particular facts of past and present lives.
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An Object (n.) gives itself in being perceived. To perceive the object is already to understand what it affords.