…the Wintu in north-central California, who don’t use the words left and right to describe their own bodies but use the cardinal directions…’When the Wintu goes up the river, the hills are still to the west, the river to the east; and a mosquito bites him on the west arm. When he returns, the hills are still to the west, but, when he scratches his mosquito bite, he scratched his east arm.’
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

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