| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 319 pages) |
| Contents |
Cultural sites : sustaining a home in a deterritorialized world / Karen Fog Olwig -- Imagining a place in the Andes : in the borderland of lived, invented, and analyzed culture / Karsten Pærregaard -- Which world? : on the diffusion of Algerian raï to the West / Marc Schade-Poulsen -- Seeking place : capsized identities and contracted belonging among Sri Lankan Tamil refugees / Ann-Belinda Steen Preis -- The nation as a human being, a metaphor in a mid-life crisis? : notes on the imminent collapse of Norwegian national identity / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty / James Ferguson -- The experience of displacement : reconstructing places and identities in Sri Lanka / Birgitte Refslund Sørensen -- Localizing the American dream : constructing Hawaiian homelands / Ulla Hasager -- Picturing and placing Constable Country / Judith Okely -- Speechless emissaries : refugees, humanitarianism, and dehistoricization / Liisa H. Malkki -- "Roots" and "mosaic" in a Balkan border village : locating cultural production / Jonathan Schwartz -- Simplifying complexity : assimilating the global in a small paradise / Jonathan Friedman -- There are no Indians in the Dominican Republic : the cultural construction of Dominican identities / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen |
| Summary |
So far, much of the critical analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a more general level of theoretical debate. Siting Culture argues that it is only through rich ethnographic studies that anthropologists may explore the significance of place in the global space of relations which mold the everyday lives of people throughout the world. It does this by examining the concept of culture through a number of case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean in order to probe the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork
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Culture -- Philosophy
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Anthropology -- Fieldwork
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Culture -- Philosophy
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Culturele antropologie.
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Socialantropologi -- teori, filosofi.
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Fältarbete.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948-
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Hastrup, Kirsten
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| ISBN |
0203979540 |
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9780203979549 |
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0203979540 |
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9781134749461 |
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1134749465 |
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