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Walking into the Void - A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking (Hardcover)
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Walking into the Void - A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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The book starts by discussing the significance of walking for the
experience of being human, including a comparative study of the
language and cultures of walking. It then reviews in detail,
relying on archaeology, two turning points of human history: the
emergence of cave art sanctuaries and a new cultural practice of
long-distance 'pilgrimages', implying a descent into such caves,
thus literally the 'void'; and the abandonment of walking culture
through settlement at the end of the Ice Age, around the time when
the visiting of cave sanctuaries also stopped. The rise of
philosophy and Christianity is then presented as two returns to
walking. The book closes by looking at the ambivalent relationship
of contemporary modernity to walking, where its radical abandonment
is combined with attempts at returns. The book ventures an
unprecedented genealogy of walking culture, bringing together
archaeological studies distant in both time and place, and having a
special focus on the significance of the rise of representative art
for human history. Our genealogy helped to identify settlement not
as the glorious origin of civilisation, but rather as a source of
an extremely problematic development. The findings of the book
should be relevant for social scientists, as well as those
interested in walking and its cultural and civilisational
significance, or in the direction and meaning of human history.
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