From Sly:
hi
this anthropological essay about feet and hands and footwear is really interesting and gives somes keys to understand why people are feeling so uncomfortable with these bare feet
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/feet.pdf
"Is the conventional division of labour between hands and feet, then, as ‘natural’ as Darwin and his contemporaries made it out to be? Could it not be, at least in some measure, a result of the mapping, onto the human body, of a peculiarly modern discourse about the triumph of intelligence over instinct, and about the human domination of nature? And could not the technology of footwear be understood, again in some measure, as an effort to convert the imagined superiority of hands over feet, corresponding respectively to intelligence and instinct, or to reason and nature, into an experienced reality?"
hi
this anthropological essay about feet and hands and footwear is really interesting and gives somes keys to understand why people are feeling so uncomfortable with these bare feet
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/tourist/feet.pdf
"Is the conventional division of labour between hands and feet, then, as ‘natural’ as Darwin and his contemporaries made it out to be? Could it not be, at least in some measure, a result of the mapping, onto the human body, of a peculiarly modern discourse about the triumph of intelligence over instinct, and about the human domination of nature? And could not the technology of footwear be understood, again in some measure, as an effort to convert the imagined superiority of hands over feet, corresponding respectively to intelligence and instinct, or to reason and nature, into an experienced reality?"
