Locality and Belonging

by Nadia Lovell (Editor)

Overview

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:
* space, memory and ethnicity
* the mnemonic use of objects
* mythologies of football and history
* use of 'natural features' of the environment
* nationhood and post-colonial identity making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134739790
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/2003
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	323 KB

About the Author

Nadia Lovell

Table of Contents

Contributors, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter I. The rootedness of trees, Chapter 2. Wild gods, containing wombs and moving pots, Chapter 3. Powers of place, Chapter 4. Origin and ritual exchange as transformative belonging in the Balinese temple, Chapter 5. Spirit possession as historical narrative, Chapter 6. The need for a ‘bit of history’, Chapter 7. The politics of locality, Chapter 8. The potrero and the pibe, Index

Editorial Reviews

'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

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