ISBN:
978-0-933452-95-4
,
0-933452-94-2
Language:
English
Pages:
293 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
6th paperback printing
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [46]
Keywords:
Anthropogeographie Geographie
;
Philosophie
;
Ethnologie
;
Raum
;
Westliche Apache
;
Papua-Neuguinea
;
Lumbee
Abstract:
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 know the places in which they live. Case studies range from the Apaches of Arizona`s White Mountains to the residents of backwoods "hollers" in Appalachia and the Kaluli people of New Guinea`s rainforests. As these writers confront the dilemmas and possibilities of an anthropological consideration of place, they make an important and moving contribution to our understanding of ourselves. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction, Steven Feld and Keith H. Basso -- How to Get from Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena, Edward S. Casey -- Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landscape, Keith H. Basso -- Waterfalls of Song: An Acoustemology of Place Resounding in Boasvi, Papua New Guinea, Steven Feld -- An Occupied Place, Kathleen C. Stewart -- Your Place and Mine: Sharing Emotional Landscapes in Wamira, Papua New Guinea, Miriam Kahn -- "Where Do You Stay At?": Homeplace and Community among the Lumbee, Karen I. Blu -- Pleasant Places, Past Times, and Sheltered Identity in Rural East Anglia, Charles O. Frake -- Afterword, Clifford Geertz -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-281"School of American Research advanced seminar Place, Expression, and Experience, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March-April 1993" (letzte Seite)Enthält 7 Beiträge
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