Shoes
Omg. SHOES. … have really interesting cultural implications. What does your footwear say about YOU? ↓ More info + Links! ↓ ----------------------------------------------------------------...
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We are back here at the Field Museum with Alaka Wali, who is the curator of North American anthropology here, and today we're talking about shoes! A: Shoes. E: Why are we talking about shoes? We thought that shoes would be a good way to talk about cultural similarities and cultural differences. For the first pair that we're talking about today, we have a pair of reef shoes, which would've -- what would these have been used for? These were invented by people in the Pacific islands as a way of walking on reefs. E: Why would somebody be walking on coral reefs? A: Well, they're looking for fish that they're going to spear, or they're looking for marine life, you know, they're fishermen. They're generally so. So you wouldn...
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We are back here at the Field Museum with Alaka Wali, who is the curator of North American anthropology here, and today we're talking about shoes! A: Shoes. E: Why are we talking about shoes? We thought that shoes would be a good way to talk about cultural similarities and cultural differences. For the first pair that we're talking about today, we have a pair of reef shoes, which would've -- what would these have been used for? These were invented by people in the Pacific islands as a way of walking on reefs. E: Why would somebody be walking on coral reefs? A: Well, they're looking for fish that they're going to spear, or they're looking for marine life, you know, they're fishermen. They're generally so. So you wouldn...
