ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to a niche within academia, Tim Ingold’s project ‘Knowing from the Inside’, and presents the new possibilities of knowledge production. Caroline Gatt, who works with the actor and director Ang Gey Pin, had conceived a subproject on collaboration and designed a setup with as few constraints as possible, but as it was situated in an academic context, there were some deadlines and requirements. The author worked with a German actor but felt that her collaborator, a non-academic, considered her an agent of an institution that was putting pressure on her. Therefore, she asked less and less and did more and more herself, but she got stuck in a dilemma: this was no longer collaboration. This chapter explores how anthropologists might convey the possibilities academia offers but also the challenges without being perceived as dominant and how they might communicate that they are only too well aware of the problematic aspects of their discipline, but that anthropology opens up possibilities that are unique in academia.
