Senses of Place

Name: Senses of Place
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ISBN: 9780933452954

ISBN-10: 0933452950

ISBN-13: 9780933452954

Edition: 1996

Authors: Steven Feld, Keith H. Basso

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The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders-to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities for ancestral homelands, land rights, and retention of sacred places-have brought the political question of place into sharp focus. But to date, little attention has been paid to the ethnography of place, to how people actually live in, perceive, and invest with meaning the places they call home.In this compelling new volume, eight respected ethnographers explore and lyrically evoke the ways in which people experience, express, imagine, and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Publication date: 11/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.01" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena




Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape




Waterfalls of Song: An Acoustemology of Place Resounding in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea




An Occupied Place




Your Place and Mine: Sharing Emotional Landscapes in Wamira, Papua New Guinea




"Where Do You Stay At?": Homeplace and Community among the Lumbee




Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia



Afterword



References


Index