Nadia Lovell (ed.)

Locality and Belonging

Herausgeber: Lovell, Nadia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780415182829
• ISBN-10: 0415182824
• Artikelnr.: 21889304

Autorenporträt

Nadia Lovell

Inhaltsangabe

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