Walking served as an occasion for the display of power and status in ancient Rome, where great men paraded with their entourages through city streets and elite villa owners strolled with friends in ...private colonnades and gardens. In this book-length treatment of the culture of walking in ancient Rome, Timothy O'Sullivan explores the careful attention which Romans paid to the way they moved through their society. He employs a wide range of literary, artistic and architectural evidence to reveal the crucial role that walking played in the performance of social status, the discourse of the body and the representation of space. By examining how Roman authors depict walking, this book sheds new light on the Romans themselves - not only how they perceived themselves and their experience of the world, but also how they drew distinctions between work and play, mind and body, and Republic and Empire.
These Books Were Made for Walking Furlani, Andre
The European Legacy, Toward New Paradigms,
05/19/2023, Letnik:
28, Številka:
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Journal Article, Book Review
Klann Mechanism Manikanta, Komma Siva; Vinodh, Dr; Silvister Raju, Mr. John
IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering,
12/2020, Letnik:
981, Številka:
4
Journal Article
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The main objective is to design a spider mechanism by usingklann mechanism. Therefore, klann mechanism can access to places where the wheels cannot be used and it is even capable to travel any ...terrain and harmful places where the people can not work or travel like nuclear plants mining etc. now we are trying to obtain a klann mechanism robot which has both the motions in it like walking and climb over obstacle when it is needed by adjusting or changing the dimensions or the angles in the klann mechanism lay out. Its like we want to merge the both trajectory of walking and climbing into one trajectory so it can per from both the motions in needed.
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts ...two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology. Loring Danforth not only analyzes these rituals in light of the most recent work in medical and symbolic anthropology but also describes in detail the lives of individual firewalkers, involving the reader personally in their experiences: he views ritual therapy as a process of transformation and empowerment through which people are metaphorically moved from a state of illness to a state of health. Danforth shows that the Anastenaria and the songs accompanying it allow people to express and resolve conflict-laden family relationships that may lead to certain kinds of illnesses. He also demonstrates how women use the ritual to gain a sense of power and control over their lives without actually challenging the ideology of male dominance that pervades Greek culture. Comparing the Anastenaria with American firewalking, Danforth includes a gripping account of his own participation in a firewalk in rural Maine. Finally he examines the place of anthropology in a postmodern world in which the boundaries between cultures are becoming increasingly blurred.
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