academic nomad
| Introduction | transience (also expressed as "nomadism" or "movement") archmetaphor for that which lies outside structure or between structures, or is a dissolvent of structure. transience is exemplified by the liminal religious man who has renounced the world and home, moving from village to village--the pilgrim, or the hero of the "quest" tales, who goes on a long journey to seek his identity outside structure (from Victor Turner) |
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