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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, 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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Nadia Lovell
Résumé
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.
