The aim of this paper is to discuss the analytical proposition of Tim Ingold in understanding the notion of Person who wants to overcome the duality of mind and body. This duality is "rethought" through the objection to the concept of "collective representation", in favor of an approach that incorporates biological principles in explaining, to conceive the person as an aspect of organic life in general. The argument developed here is that the incorporation of these principles as an attempt to overcome the mind / body dualism forces us to confront the issues in a new way. And it also questions whether the result would not renew analytical explanations that he wants to refute. It means: the epistemological basis of the french sociological school in relation to the postulate of the social foundation of cognition. This article is organized into three parts. The first, introductory, presents the social context and the recent development of the Cognitive Sciences conditions in the resumption of the theme. The second part presents the analytical perspective of Ingold understanding the notion of Person that intends to overcome dualisms such as nature and culture, mind and body. Finally, the third part, discusses the theoretical and ideological implications of the analytical argument proposed by Ingold
cognition; mind versus body; person; Tim Ingold