Anthropodology
man a-foot
pp. 84-101
in: Waltervon Baeyer, Richard M. Griffith (eds), Conditio humana, Berlin, Springer, 1966Abstract
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.”