Ways of walking : ethnography and practice on foot
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Bibliographic Information
Ways of walking : ethnography and practice on foot
(Anthropological studies of creativity and perception)
Ashgate, c2008
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'technique of the body'. This book presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversity of walking behaviours and the variety of meanings these can embody. As an original collection of ethnographic work that is both coherent in design and imaginative in scope, this primarily anthropological book includes contributions from geographers, sociologists and specialists in education and architecture, offering insights into human movement, landscape and social life. With its interdisciplinary nature and truly international appeal, Ways of Walking will be of interest to scholars across a range of social sciences, as well as to policy makers on both local and national levels.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction, Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst
- Before a step too far: walking with Batek hunter-gatherers in the forests of Pahang, Malaysia, Lye Tuck-Po
- Walking stories: leaving footprints, Allice Legat
- The dilemmas of walking: a comparative view, Thomas Widlok
- Feet following hooves, Pernille Gooch
- Performing on the landscape versus doing landscape: perambulatory practice, sight and the sense of belonging, Kenneth R. Olwig
- Listen to the sound of time: walking with saints in an Andalusian village, KatrA n Lund
- Taking a trip and taking care in everyday life, Jo Lee Vergunst
- Walking through ruins, Tim Edensor
- Walking out of the classroom: learning on the streets of Aberdeen, Elizabeth Curtis
- Enchantment engineering and pedestrian empowerment: the Geneva case, Sonia Lavadinho and Yves Winkin
- 'Taking a line for a walk': walking as an aesthetic practice, Raymond Lucas
- A collectable topography: walking, remembering and recording mountains, Hayden Lorimer and KatrA n Lund
- Index.
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