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Paperback Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking Book
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ISBN: 1138214493

ISBN13: 9781138214491

Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking

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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...

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