Peripatetics The original meaning of the word peripatos was "a covered walking place." The house that Theophrastus provided for the school of Aristotle contained such a peripatos . This yielded a proper name for the school...

The people whom anthropologists commonly call peripatetics (from the Greek peripatetikos, meaning to walk up and down, discoursing while walking) are known in South and West Asia by a variety of terms, among them Gypsies, Lambadis, and Banjaras. They...

A school that moves from place to place to be where the students are...

The Peripatetics were members of a school of philosophy in ancient Greece. Their teachings derived from their founder, the Greek philosopher Aristotle and peripatetic (περιπατητικός)...

"Arizona China woman,! now you are in Gold Mountain Country,! you speak English like the radio,! but will it let you forget your father?" In her second book of poems, What the Fortune Teller Didn't Say, Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Among the White Moon...

New Delhi, (WFS) - The whirligig of an Indian wedding - jewellery-embellished women carrying sweet-laden plates, the swish of silk, the cloying fragrance of jasmine, tinkling laughter... But, hello, who's this squatting next to the sacred fire? Not a large-bellied, tilak-anointed pundit (priest) spewing...