Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within global fields of relations.So far, much of the analysis of the role of place in culture has been carried out at a 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 mould the lives of people throughout the world. By examining the concept of culture through case studies from Europe, Africa, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean it probes the methodological and theoretical implications of the divergent scholarly and popular concepts of culture.
Author(s): Karen Fog Olwig, Kirsten Hastrup
Edition: 1
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 328
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
SPACE AND PLACE......Page 10
ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH......Page 14
A process through time......Page 15
Reflexivity......Page 16
SITING CULTURE......Page 18
AKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 19
REFERENCES......Page 20
Part 1 Finding a place for culture......Page 22
CULTURAL SITINGS......Page 24
A HISTORY OF DETERRITORIALIZATION......Page 26
FAMILY LAND......Page 30
FAMILY HOUSE......Page 33
TOWARD AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CULTURAL SITES......Page 39
NOTES......Page 42
Printed sources......Page 43
Archival records......Page 44
2 Imagining a place in the Andes......Page 46
TAPAY: A LIVED SPACE......Page 49
PERU: A WORLD OUTSIDE TAPAY......Page 51
The nostalgic image......Page 52
The rational image......Page 53
The moral image......Page 54
The ethnic image......Page 56
CULTURAL IMAGES AT WORK......Page 57
CONCLUSION......Page 60
NOTES......Page 62
INTRODUCTION......Page 66
ON THE PRODUCTION OF RAÏ2......Page 69
ON THE CONSUMPTION OF RAÏ......Page 70
RAI IN THE WEST......Page 73
THE PRESS STORY......Page 74
THE NARRATIVE......Page 77
THE PORTRAYAL OF RAI IN THE WEST......Page 78
ACTUEL......Page 79
DIDI, DIDI......Page 83
CONCLUSION......Page 85
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 87
NOTES......Page 88
REFERENCES......Page 90
4 Seeking place......Page 94
REFUGEE PLACES......Page 96
ABSENCE AS PRESENCE......Page 97
BREAKS AND CONNECTIONS......Page 98
IMPOSSIBLE COMMUNITY......Page 100
EXILE POWER......Page 101
CONCLUSION: ABOUNDING DIFFERENCE?......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 106
Part II The culture and politics of place......Page 108
THE CONCEPT OF CULTURE......Page 110
NORWEGIAN NATIONHOOD......Page 112
HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE......Page 114
THE NATIONALIZATION OF CHILDHOOD......Page 115
CONTESTING THE PAST......Page 116
THE EFFECT OF THE MINORITY PRESENCE......Page 118
GLOBALIZATION AND THE IMPLOSION OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES......Page 120
THE ADAPTABILITY OF INDIGENOUS ESSENTIALISM......Page 123
THE INDIVIDUAL—NO LONGER “INHERENTLY LIMITED AND SOVEREIGN”......Page 124
SOME IMPLICATIONS......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
6 Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence......Page 130
LESOTHO: A “REAL” NATION-STATE......Page 132
TRANSKEI: CHRONICLE OF A PSEUDO NATION-STATE......Page 134
POLITICS AND POVERTY: TWO DISCURSIVE LANDSCAPES......Page 138
DEPOLITICIZING POVERTY: A CONSTELLATION OF STATES......Page 142
EPILOGUE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL APARTHEID? A CONSTELLATION OF CULTURES......Page 143
REFERENCES......Page 146
INTRODUCTION......Page 150
NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT......Page 153
CULTURAL DISPLACEMENT: THE PERSPECTIVE OF LOCAL VILLAGERS......Page 156
PHYSICAL DISPLACEMENT: THE PERSPECTIVE OF SETTLERS FROM OUTSIDE......Page 159
THE SITES OF STRUGGLE......Page 161
THE NATIONAL INFLUENCE ON LOCAL LIFE......Page 165
DISPLACEMENT AS EVENT AND PROCESS......Page 167
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 168
NOTES......Page 169
REFERENCES......Page 170
8 Localizing the American dream......Page 174
The American dream—the vision of federal and territorial institutions......Page 175
“Rehabilitation” and land rights—the vision of the Kanaka Maoli leaders......Page 177
“A political accident”—the politics of the local business elite......Page 179
LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION......Page 180
“Forty acres and a mule”......Page 181
Constructing homelands......Page 183
Home, land—homeland......Page 187
Grid or ahupua’a—cultural models of the relationship between man and land......Page 189
A localized dream......Page 191
PRACTICING PLACE—AND ANTHROPOLOGY......Page 193
NOTES......Page 195
REFERENCES......Page 198
PAINTING PLACE......Page 204
CULTIVATED LAND......Page 208
“JUST LOOKING”......Page 210
THE APPROPRIATION OF CENTRAL SPACE......Page 217
INDIVIDUALS AND MNEMONIC SPACE......Page 220
TO CONCLUDE......Page 226
NOTES......Page 228
REFERENCES......Page 229
Part III Topical metaphors in anthropological thinking......Page 232
INTRODUCTION......Page 234
REFUGEE STATUS AS LIVED BY HUTU REFUGEES IN MISHAMO, TANZANIA......Page 237
THE SOCIAL IMAGINATION OF REFUGEE STATUS AMONG REFUGEE ADMINISTRATORS IN TANZANIA......Page 240
REFUGEES AS AN OBJECT OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION......Page 244
THE STAKES IN THE HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS IN RWANDA, BURUNDI, AND BEYOND......Page 249
CONCLUSION......Page 258
NOTES......Page 259
REFERENCES......Page 262
INTRODUCTION......Page 266
THE USE AND ABUSE OF METAPHORS: ROOTS AND MOSAICS......Page 268
CONCLUSION......Page 275
REFERENCES......Page 276
12 Simplifying complexity......Page 278
SMALL VILLAGE IN A WORLD ARENA......Page 280
PRACTICING THE LOCAL IN THE GLOBAL......Page 285
THE REGIONAL ARENA......Page 286
THE REPRESENTATIONAL CONTEXT......Page 287
LOCALIZING THE GLOBAL IN THE LOCAL: THE FLOW OF PEOPLE......Page 292
COMPLEXITY AS THE BIRDSEYE VIEW......Page 294
ENDOSOCIALITY, THE REDUCTION OF COMPLEXITY AND SOCIAL SURVIVAL......Page 296
CONCLUDING NOTE......Page 298
REFERENCES......Page 300
13 There are no Indians in the Dominican Republic......Page 302
THE DOMINICAN INDIAN......Page 303
THE COST OF LIVING......Page 304
PEOPLE, PLACE, AND IDENTITY......Page 307
LOCALIZING AND GLOBALIZING DOMINICAN IDENTITY......Page 311
NATIONAL FRONTIERS AND BORDERLAND IDENTITY......Page 314
NOTES......Page 317
REFERENCES......Page 318
Subject index......Page 322
Names index......Page 328
