ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explore in more detail the relationship between practices of walking, the experience of embodiment and forms of sociability, both in everyday life and in the conduct of anthropological fieldwork. Firstly, the repeated action of putting one foot in front of the other necessitates contact with the ground and, often, a state of being attuned to the environment. For the anthropologist, this in turn leads to the realization that we have to understand the routes and mobilities of others. The pleasure of walking in newly fallen snow - and in looking behind us to see our footprints - is related to the creation of a visible route, as well as the tactility of the foot and snow. But walking was often described by our informants as an excellent way of being with other people, a very rich way of socializing, to the extent that there seems to be something distinctive about the sociability of walking together.
