Do Tech, Tools and Culture Change How We Move?

This became clear when the British regiment acquired a band of French buglers and drummers. This fancy band of musicians was a reward for “considerable glory alongside French infantry in the Battle of the Aisne” (these are Mauss’ words). But as Maus explains, the gait of the “unfortunate regiment of tall Englishmen” was completely at odds with the French band. “When they tried to march in step, the music would be out of step. With the result that the Worcester Regiment was forced to give up its French buglers.” Mauss wrote about these, and other observations on human movement, in 1935 in a extraordinary piece called Techniques of the Body. Culture, tools, and technology, he said, influence how we jump, climb, swim, sit, march, tackle staircases, dance, eat, drink, dig and even how we walk ... <a href="https://medium.com/counterarts/do-tech-tools-and-culture-change-how-we-move-a7fc608b7057">Click Here</a>