The Songlines

What metaphors are used in The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin?

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Chatwin selects several passages about the stories of Cain and Abel, drawing out their metaphor to the farming, settling, metal-working people contrasted with the herding, nomadic, tentdwelling people and how their mythologies, religions and lifestyles have developed at odds with each other.

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The Songlines