Visitors to this Jaipur temple remove their motorcycle helmets and shoes before entering, with numbered tokens.
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If you want to understand a person – look at their shoes, or lack of. As the most frequently used interface between ourselves and our …
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Chinese peasant shoes on a very democratic Tokyo subway.
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The role of sports, and particularly basketball in breaking down (and to some extent reinforcing) racial stereotypes in China, but certainly creating positive role models. …
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Shoes waiting for soles. How far can the designer go in preparing objects for final customisation?
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The moment after the interview – when yours truly, the fixer, the connector and the participant – a hawala agent in the local money bazaar …
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Shoe formation from a classroom’s worth of pupils taking off their slippers at the entrance to the room. The importance, or otherwise of wearing the …
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As with Japan its common to take off your shoes entering a Thai apartment. A foowear behaviour extending into this workplace – a library worker …
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