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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
Nadia Lovell
'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
