Świadomość mięśniowa. Wytwarzanie wiedzy w Arktyce
Muscular Consciousness: Knowledge-Making in an Arctic Environment

Summary/Abstract: Hastrup discusses the process of knowledge-making in anthropology, as based on fieldwork, yet not reducible to this. She organizes her argument in terms of skills, a concept that is owed to Ingold (2000) who stresses that skills are not simply techniques of the body, but capabilities of action and perception, growing through an active engagement with the constituents of the surroundings. The skills identified here, and by which the hunters relate to their world, are the skills of wayfaring, of forecasting and of timing – skills that the fieldworker identifies when going along with the hunters. In the concluding section, Hastrup addresses the skill of abduction, which she see as the core of knowledge making, among hunters as well as anthropologists.

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