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Walking into the Void

- A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
Af: Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai Engelsk Paperback

Walking into the Void

- A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking
Af: Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai Engelsk Paperback
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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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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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 218
ISBN-13: 9781138214491
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1138214493
Kategori: Kulturstudier
Udg. Dato: 17 okt 2017
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 232mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 17 okt 2017
Forfatter(e): Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai
Forfatter(e) Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai

Kategori Kulturstudier

ISBN-13 9781138214491

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 218

Udgave

Længde 13mm

Bredde 232mm

Højde 156mm

Udg. Dato 17 okt 2017

Oplagsdato 17 okt 2017

Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd

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