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Locality and belonging / edited by Nadia Lovell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
- European Association of Social Anthropologists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human territoriality.
- Human beings--Effect of environment on.
- Human beings.
- Geographical perception.
- Landscape assessment.
- Place (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the relationship between identity and territory with case studies from Indonesia, Zanzibar, Argentina, South Africa and the UK.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; The rootedness of trees: place as cultural and natural texture in rural southwest Congo; Wild gods, containing wombs and moving pots: emplacement and transience in Watchi belonging; Powers of place: landscape, territory and local belonging in Northwest Amazonia; Origin and ritual exchange as transformative belonging in the Balinese temple; Spirit possession as historical narrative: the production of identity and locality in Zanzibar Town; The need for a 'bit of history': place and past in English identity
- The politics of locality: memories of District Six in Cape TownThe potrero and the pibe: territory and belonging in the mythical account of Argentinean football; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-73979-6
- 1-134-73980-X
- 0-203-45080-9
- 0-415-18282-4
- 1-280-02003-2
- 9780203450802
- OCLC:
- 475893000
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