9780933452947-0933452942-Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar)

Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar)

ISBN-13: 9780933452947
ISBN-10: 0933452942
Edition: First Edition
Author: Steven Feld, Keith H. Basso
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: School of American Research Press
Format: Hardcover 293 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780933452947
ISBN-10: 0933452942
Edition: First Edition
Author: Steven Feld, Keith H. Basso
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: School of American Research Press
Format: Hardcover 293 pages

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Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) (ISBN-13: 9780933452947 and ISBN-10: 0933452942), written by authors Steven Feld, Keith H. Basso, was published by School of American Research Press in 1997. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Senses of Place (School of American Research Advanced Seminar) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders -- to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities for ancestral homelands, land rights, and retention of sacred places -- have brought the political question of place into sharp focus. But to date, little attention has been paid to the ethnography of place, to how people actually live in, perceive, and invest with meaning the places they call home.In this compelling new volume eight respected ethnographers explore and lyrically evoke the ways in which people experience, express, imagine, and know the places in which they live. Case studies range from the Apaches of Arizona's White Mountains to the residents of backwoods hollers in Appalachia and the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea's rainforests. As these writers confront the dilemmas and possibilities of an anthropological consideration of place, they make an important and moving contribution to our understanding of ourselves.
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