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1 online resource |
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Short Black ; Series Number not available! |
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Davidson, Robyn.
Short Black
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| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Indian Himalayas; Stanley Park; Conclusion; Coda; Back Cover |
| Summary |
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora; the Hajj. What could this ritual journeying be but symbolic, idealised versions of the foraging life? By taking to the road we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures. In this fascinating and moving essay she evokes a vanishing way of life, and notes a paradox: that even as classical nomads are disappearing, hypermobility has become the hallmark of contemporary life |
| Notes |
Non fiction |
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Adult |
| Subject |
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian.
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Nomads.
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Nomads -- Himalaya Mountains
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Nomads -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Nomads -- Australia
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Nomads -- India.
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Cosmology, Australian
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Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
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Nomads
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Australia
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Himalaya Mountains
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925203578 |
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1925203573 |
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