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Astray
A History of Wandering
Buch von Eluned Summers-Bremner
Sprache: Englisch

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"A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human - it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning - a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today's refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope"--
"A meandering celebration of the indirect and unforeseen path, revealing that to err is not just human - it is everything. This book explores how, far from being an act limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning - a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our planet. In ancient Australian Aboriginal cosmology, in works about the origins of democracy and surviving disasters in ancient Greece, in Eurasian steppe nomadic culture, in the lifeways of the Roma, in the movements of today's refugees, and in our attempts to preserve spaces of untracked online freedom, wandering is how creativity and skills of adaptation are preserved in the interests of ongoing life. Astray is an enthralling look at belonging and at notions of alienation and hope"--
Über den Autor
Eluned Summers-Bremner is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History, also published by Reaktion Books.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789147049
ISBN-10: 1789147042
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Summers-Bremner, Eluned
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 222 x 147 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Eluned Summers-Bremner
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,548 kg
Artikel-ID: 125623931
Über den Autor
Eluned Summers-Bremner is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History, also published by Reaktion Books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789147049
ISBN-10: 1789147042
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Summers-Bremner, Eluned
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 222 x 147 x 33 mm
Von/Mit: Eluned Summers-Bremner
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2023
Gewicht: 0,548 kg
Artikel-ID: 125623931
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