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At Home in the Hills
John N. Gray
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Hardcover. 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 outr sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study.. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSB; 3JJ; JFSF; JHM; RGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Herndon, United States
ISBN
9781571817396
SKU
V9781571817396
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99-15
About John N. Gray
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 Householder¹s World: Purity, Power and ... Read more
Reviews for At Home in the Hills
"... 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