Locality and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9780415182829 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 232 str.

Nadia Lovell

Opis

This text explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and experienced space. It presents an international overview of the relationship between locality and belonging, with the contributors presenting 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, and mythologies of football and history feature as some of the themes which reveal and express the relationship between locality and belonging.

Recenzje

'Stimulating case material for those interested in the anthropological field of "location studies" ... reader friendly.' - Philip Thomas, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

'Lovell's book represents an important contribution to the study of the process of identity' - Luca Libertini, University of Cambridge

O autorze

Nadia Lovell