... are surely how we can be encouraged to walk with mediascape in the land.
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Wayfarers, by contrast, work out their trails as they go along, adjusting their movements in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of their surroundings, and invariably overshooting their destinations. It is in these thoughtful and improvisatory movements along ways of life that inhabitants' knowledge is forged. Though the traces left in the landscape by pedestrian movement may be long lasting, or alternatively may fade as quickly as they are made, these trails remain firmly etched in the memories of those who follow them. Thus locomotion and cognition are inseparable, and an account of the mind must be as concerned with the work of the feet as with that of the head and hands."
- from the abstract for Thinking on one's feet: walking as a way of knowing, presented by Tim Ingold, Dept of Anthropology, Aberdeen, UK
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I've just ordered a copy of his book on 'Lines'... more to come!
well - this is what jumps out at me :
'....Emplotment, I argue, is related to emplacement, and in the corporeal movement through narrative space, a sense of place is born....'
'...Because you're mine, I walk the line' (Johnny Cash!)
The life journey, the Great Unfolding,revealing - whatever you call it. Through narrative we define ourselves and our relation to others, forging our place within our landscapes, negotiating the rocks and river beds.
In the end, we are - over the hill!
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