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In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.
List of contents
1 Place Attachment: A Conceptual Inquiry.- Background.- The Concept of Place Attachment.- Some Aspects of Place Attachment.- Development of Place Attachments.- Role and Purpose of Place Attachment.- Reprise.- References.- 2 Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape.- Biology, Culture, and Individual.- Encounter, Time, and Fantasy.- Questions and Directions for Future Research.- Cautionary Notes.- References.- 3 Attachment to Possessions.- Attachment, Extended Self, and Possessions.- Toward a Theory of Attachment to Possessions.- Attachment to Possessions and Human Well-Being.- Summary and Future Directions for Research.- References.- 4 Childhood Place Attachments.- Sources of Developing Attachment.- Place Attachments in Object Relations Theory.- Remembered Places.- Reported and Presented Places.- Directions for Future Research.- References.- 5 Environmental Memories.- Adult Memories of the Special Places of Childhood.- Reproducing Special Places of Childhood in the Adult Home.- The Current Home as a Contrast to That of Childhood, or as a Replay of Unresolved Childhood Problems.- Aging and the Memories of Dwellings.- Future Directions for Research.- Conclusion.- References.- 6 Home as a Workplace in the Lives of Women.- Toward a Social Construction of Place Attachment.- Domestic Ideology and the Myth of the Privatized Home.- The Meaning of Work and "Women's Work".- Home Workplaces in African-American Women's Experience.- Complex Bonds to Home: Homeworking Women Today.- Conclusions and Future Directions.- References.- 7 Attachment to Place and the Representation of the Life Course by the Elderly.- Three Cases.- An Integrative Model of Place Attachment in Later Life.- Individual Definition, Collective Definition, and Centrality of Place.- Conclusion and FutureDirections for Research.- References.- 8 Symbolic Ties That Bind: Place Attachment in the Plaza.- A Cultural Definition of Place Attachment.- A Typology of Cultural Place Attachment.- Plaza Ethnography: A Case Study of Place Attachment.- Future Directions for Research and Design.- References.- 9 Spaces That Teach: Attachment to the African Compound.- The Importance of Place.- The Neighborhood of Adabraka.- The Urban Compound.- Adabraka's Compound Living.- The Significance of Compound Space.- Compound Order.- Anthropology and Compound Attachment.- Of Interest to Environmental Planners.- Future Directions of Research-Design and Policy.- References.- 10 Transcendence of Place: The Role of La Placeta in Valencia's Las Fallas.- Theoretical Background.- History of Las Fallas.- Organizational Structure.- Ritual Transcendence.- Conclusion.- Directions for Future Research.- References.- 11 Thresholds to an Alternate Realm: Mapping the Chaseworld in New Jersey's Pine Barrens.- Theoretical Framework.- Pine Barrens Foxhunting.- Delineating the Chaseworld.- Boundary Maintenance: Chaseworld Insiders and Outsiders.- Place as Kommunicative Umwelt.- Implications and Directions for Future Research.- References.- 12 Community Attachment: Local Sentiment and Sense of Place.- Community Sentiment: An Interdisciplinary Review.- Community Sentiment and Sense of Place.- Researching Community Sentiment: New Directions.- References.- 13 Disruptions in Place Attachment.- A Conceptual Framework.- Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Place Processes.- Disruptions to Attachment via Changes in Places.- Commonalities across Disruptions.- Future Research Directions and Summary.- References.
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In step with the growing interest in place attachment, this volume examines the phenomena from the perspective of several disciplines-including anthropology, folklore, and psychology-and points towards promising directions of future research.
