Locality and Belonging

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-415-18281-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 469 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are:

* space, memory and ethnicity
* the mnemonic use of objects
* mythologies of football and history
* use of 'natural features' of the environment
* nationhood and post-colonial identity making.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lovell, Nadia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter I. The rootedness of trees, Chapter 2. Wild gods, containing wombs and moving pots, Chapter 3. Powers of place, Chapter 4. Origin and ritual exchange as transformative belonging in the Balinese temple, Chapter 5. Spirit possession as historical narrative, Chapter 6. The need for a ‘bit of history’, Chapter 7. The politics of locality, Chapter 8. The potrero and the pibe, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia Lovell