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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 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.

Ethnology --- Geographical perception. --- Human geography --- Philosophy. --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sociology of culture --- Philosophical anthropology --- group identity --- Social geography --- human geography --- ethnicity --- Geographical perception --- #SBIB:316.334.5U13 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Environmental perception --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Perception --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Space perception --- Philosophy --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: sociale aspecten van de ruimte, sociale ecologie --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Géographie sociale --- Ethnologie --- Perception géographique --- Philosophie --- Human geography - Philosophy --- Ethnology - Philosophy