222 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites it becomes the anchorage point for ethnic, cultural and national identities. Yet it is also place that becomes the battlefield, war zone, mass grave, desecrated site and destroyed landscape in the midst or aftermath of cultural wounding.
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Introduction
PART I Meeting place in the epistemological gap
1 Context and cultural wounding: the relational sphere of life in place
PART II Witnessing place violence and the intent to harm
2 An ethnography of place harm
PART III Diagnosing place harm
3 Destruction and designifi cation
4 Social disorder: toponymic erasure and the making of harmful places
5 Elemental erasure and ecological decline
PART IV Reinstating kinship and healing place
6 Kincentric ecology and seeking an axiological return
Biography
Amanda Kearney is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
