ABSTRACT
This chapter commences with the premise of Gwich’in elder James Herbert Thompon’s ‘You Have to Live It’ and British anthropologist Tim Ingold’s understanding of the inhabitant as ‘a locus of creative growth in a manifold of relations’. Incorporating Ingold’s work and Gwich’in teachings as educational correspondences in being and knowing, the chapter moves beyond clear-cut ontological-epistemological duality to outline an anthropology-in-life. Life, at the core of Ingold’s anthropological endeavours, then, becomes a rhizomatic flow with ruptures and growths. This resonates with the continuous efforts by Gwich’in teachers to accentuate life as an educational nexus through experiences. The chapter further explores the messiness of theory and practice, anthropology and ethnography, and academic writing and storytelling.
