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 Papua 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.
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