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(1966) Conditio humana, Dordrecht, Springer.

Anthropodology

man a-foot

Richard M. Griffith

pp. 84-101

Slide showing detail from Pieter Breugel the Elder: The Fight between Carnival and Lent. A cripple pulls herself through the dirt, sliding along on a platelike sled, her useless legs bent up against the back. Each hand grasps artificial “feet” whose stick-legs give her the traction to pull. Her back is severely arched, head thrown back, her mouth opened in the effort and her agony. She is unkempt. Pictorially, she is “degraded” — as she literally is, i. e., “de-stepped.”

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85978-6_8

Full citation:

Griffith, R. M. (1966)., Anthropodology: man a-foot, in W. Baeyer & R. M. Griffith (eds.), Conditio humana, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 84-101.

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