The Nomadic Alternative – Page 277
The Nomadic Alternative
Page 277
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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