René Descartes first used the blind person's stick (BPS) as an analogy for perception in his Dioptrics (1637) and it has remained influential ever since, including in studies of '4E cognition'. This article traces how modern thinkers, including Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gregory Bateson, and present-day cognitive archaeologist Lambros Malafouris, have used the BPS to explore questions of the...
Drawing on the comparative historical analysis of hunter-gatherer and forager lifeways alongside the science and art of tracking among hunter-gatherer communities in southern Africa, this paper examines the phenomenon of interspecies transference, or ontological assimilation of sentience, experienced during the practice of cross-species tracking. This paper aims to demonstrate that...