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The Nomadic Alternative

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Carton 5 4 Box 42 (# 16-28)

16. Folder:(1974 pr'intd on outside) containing various working papers, including:

(a) "Butch Cassidy as Gaucho" 17 pages typed with ink corrections

(b) "The Guggenheims" - 29 pages typed-2 copies/versions

(c) totemic birds/beasts, etc...-1 ink file card, 1 sheet: ink on recto, typed verso

(d) "The Gypsies" 12 pages typed, New York 1967

(e) "The Scar of Wounded Knee" - 4 typed pages

(f) "The Myth of the Machine" - 1 sheet pencil

17. Notebook- 15 sides handwritten, 4 typed pieces pinned in, rest blank, topics discussed:

  • MPES/evolution/social structure/childraisimg

18. Working papers-19 typed pages with ink corrections, 8 ink pages, 2 Bond Street Photo form and duplicate with Chatwin's name on it, re:

(a)Arabs

(b)nomads-migration-Israelites-Islam

(c)death myths

(d)Steppe society

(e)notes taken from Lattimore's Asian Frontiers of China

19. Working papers for book on Nomads - 19 typed pages with ink and pencil correction- 2 ink pages, re:

(a)idea of attachment to progress/starts out autobiographically-nomads-Taoistd, medieval Europeans, etc...

(b)finitist theory of history

(c)Role of women in Nomad society-male/female relations

(d)"racism and monstrver making-thou shalt not kill- biological command therefore must make enemies/strangers sub-human to overcome & kill

(e)Nomad-urge to wander

(f)kosmopolitics

(g)Man's knowledge of himself ie man always studying animal pysiology and behavior and trying to apply it to themselves

(h)impact of innate/genetic propensities in men- Chatwin attacks notions of racial politics/purity

(i)administrator vs Nomad re progress, notion of genetics

(j)aggression-genetic?

20. Essay, 20 typed pages on the artist Le Corbusier - possibly from student days in Edinburgh

21. Working papers entitled "The Hounds of the Wilderness(Gypsies) - typed with extensive ink corrections and additions

22. Working papers- 8 typed sheets with ink corrections, 1 ink sheet, re:

  • (a)Palaeoindian cultures- Plains Indians, Han Dynasty, Eskimo
  • (b)femine interpretation of stages of prehistory
  • (c)Herodotus

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