The Nomadic Alternative – Page 279
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(a)book intro-autobiographical-childhood. gramfather a walker-Chatwin talks of his boyhood interest in gaps, gaps-
This book is about the salesman and me and other travellers. It is a rash attempt to evaluate some of the mainsprings of human wanderering and the solutions that men adopt to deal with them, and also the difficulties that wanderers encounter in their relations with settled authority.
goes on to discuss human wanderings:
- (i) causes
- ii Proust on the ways of childhood wandering-
- relates it to his own walking with his grandfather
- (b)relation between mother and child
- (c)partial pages-"there has never been an invasion without a counter invasion."
- (d)human intelligence interpreted in terms of masculine activities because of masculine domination of exact sciences-
- few lines on one sheet
- (e)behavior/aggression- 8 lines on one page
- (f)spiritual importance of wandering, eg. Sufi mysticism/St. Francis of Assis
- (g)Nomads-attachment between mother and child-
- homosexual attachment-partial pages
- (h)violence in man - 1 page
- (i)critique of ethological theory ie that human behavior genetically determined- 1 page
- (j)technological advance and war- 1 page
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THE MATERIAL IS NOT SUB-DIVIDED, HOWEVER, SOME OF IT IS NUMBERED.
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