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Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Steven Feld (Ed.)
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Description for Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Paperback. Editor(s): Feld, Steven; Basso, Keith H. Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series. Num Pages: 308 pages, 16ill.M. BIC Classification: JH; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
School of American Research Press
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9780933452954
SKU
V9780933452954
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Reviews for Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
...what an anthropology of place, space, and landscape needs to achieve...demonstrates the continued power and vitality of detailed ethnographic research." —Eric Hirsch, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute