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Record Nr.

UNISA996202042003316

Titolo

Locality and belonging / / edited by Nadia Lovell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-73979-6

1-134-73980-X

0-203-45080-9

0-415-18282-4

1-280-02003-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Altri autori (Persone)

LovellNadia <1963->

Disciplina

304.2/3

Soggetti

Human territoriality

Human beings - Effect of environment on

Geographical perception

Landscape assessment

Place (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.