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Posture Foundation
Bipedal locomotion, Upright posture
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As Ezra opened the Torah to read, they all stood (Nehemiah 8:5).
== == Many Christians still think of kneeling with folded hands as the appropriate posture for prayer, but few now know why; and the few who do know cannot, even if they choose, mean the same thing by it as was meant by those to whom the posture was part of an ideology still real in everyday social life. The social relations that once gave explicit meaning to that ritual gesture of the vassal's subordination to his lord are now as dead as a mackerel, and so, therefore, is the ideological vocabulary-including the posture of prayer-in which those social relations once lived. this is from Barbara Fields article "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America"