Gregory Bateson’s most important book, Steps to an Ecology of Mind, was finally re-edited in 2000. In the same year, Tim Ingold’s book, The Perception of the Environment, which takes up many of Bateson’s preocupations, was released. This essay proposes that these two events represent important steps towards an "ecological paradigm", which attempts to answer some of anthropology’s dilemas, and open up perspectives for interdisciplinary dialogue on new terms.
Ecology; Nature; Culture; Science; Environment