| Locality and Belonging Contributor(s): Lovell, Nadia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415182824 ISBN-13: 9780415182829 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: The issue of belonging is crucial to the study of identity within social anthropology. "Locality and Belonging" explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and experienced space. The contributors provide an international overview of the relationship between locality and belonging, with rigorous case studies from the Congo, Togo, Amazonia, Indonesia, Zanzibar, South Africa, Argentina and the United Kingdom. Contexts range from the use of "natural" features of the environment to those of nationhood and post-colonial identity-making. The examination of notions of space, memory, ethnicity, the mnemonic use of objects, mythologies of football and history, feature as some of the themes which reveal and express the relationship between locality and belonging. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 304.23 |
| LCCN: 98-24886 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.4" W x 8.6" (0.69 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are: |