An afoot is a being who campaign from abode to abode with no anchored home.1 The appellation comes from the backward 16th century: from backward Latin afoot (travelling), from the verb itinerari, from Latin iter, itiner (journey, road).2
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Types of itinerants
Drifters (rogues, rovers, vagabonds, vagrants)
Perpetual travelers, including actionable aliens (migrants)
Nomads, including hunter-gatherers and gypsies
Hobos, including tramps, bums, derelicts
Refugees and displaced persons
Artery bodies (street children, paupers, squatters, waifs, schnorrers)
World citizens
Perpetual travelers, including actionable aliens (migrants)
Nomads, including hunter-gatherers and gypsies
Hobos, including tramps, bums, derelicts
Refugees and displaced persons
Artery bodies (street children, paupers, squatters, waifs, schnorrers)
World citizens
Itinerants throughout history and today
Freight Train Riders of America (freighthoppers in United States)
Romani people
Various aboriginal peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)
Afar bodies in Horn of Africa
Bajau bodies of Philippines
Banjara of India
Bedouin (nomadic Arab bodies of the desert)
Beja bodies in North Africa
Bushmen of Southern Africa
Dom bodies in North Africa and Western Asia
Eurasian nomads of Eurasian Steppe
Ghilzai in South-Central Asia
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Norwegian Travellers
Aboriginal peoples of the Americas
Irish Travellers
Kuchi bodies of Afghanistan
Nomads of India
Pygmy peoples in Equatorial Africa and genitalia of Southeast Asia
Scottish Travellers
Yeniche bodies in Europe
Carnies (travelling show-people)
Hippies, including New Age travellers and Rainbow Travellers
Jossers (circus artists)
Kobzari (musicians of Ukraine)
Lightermen (bargees in England)
Peredvizhniki (realist artists of Russia)
Swagmen (homeless transients in Australia and New Zealand)
Circuit riders and Gyrovagues (Christian ministers and monks)
Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks)
Mendicants (beggars of altered religions)
Pilgrims (religious travellers)
Sadhus (Jain monks)
Romani people
Various aboriginal peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)
Afar bodies in Horn of Africa
Bajau bodies of Philippines
Banjara of India
Bedouin (nomadic Arab bodies of the desert)
Beja bodies in North Africa
Bushmen of Southern Africa
Dom bodies in North Africa and Western Asia
Eurasian nomads of Eurasian Steppe
Ghilzai in South-Central Asia
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Norwegian Travellers
Aboriginal peoples of the Americas
Irish Travellers
Kuchi bodies of Afghanistan
Nomads of India
Pygmy peoples in Equatorial Africa and genitalia of Southeast Asia
Scottish Travellers
Yeniche bodies in Europe
Carnies (travelling show-people)
Hippies, including New Age travellers and Rainbow Travellers
Jossers (circus artists)
Kobzari (musicians of Ukraine)
Lightermen (bargees in England)
Peredvizhniki (realist artists of Russia)
Swagmen (homeless transients in Australia and New Zealand)
Circuit riders and Gyrovagues (Christian ministers and monks)
Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks)
Mendicants (beggars of altered religions)
Pilgrims (religious travellers)
Sadhus (Jain monks)
Notable itinerants
Alexander Supertramp
Kinga Freespirit
Albert Einstein
Democritus
Diogenes of Sinope
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Paul Erdős
Gautama Buddha
Historical Jesus
Kinga Freespirit
Albert Einstein
Democritus
Diogenes of Sinope
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Paul Erdős
Gautama Buddha
Historical Jesus
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