..". a fascinating history of the Borders as space defined through
exercises of power ... The absorbing history of space provides the
setting for a fine-grained ethnograpy of place ... It also has the
great virtue of being most readable." . The Australian Journal of
Anthropology
To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak
and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized
Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and
Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense
of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case
study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and
identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in
the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the
frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the
newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to
maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural
rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history,
sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding
sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of
each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book
concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding,
selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class
relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of
life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.
John Gray is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of
Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide,
Australia. He has carried out long term ethnographic research in
both the Scottish Border as well as in Nepal about which he has
published two books: Domestic Mandala: Architecture of Lifeworlds
in Nepal (Ashgate) and The Householder s World: Purity, Power and
Dominance in a Nepali Village (Oxford)."
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