“Wie come and go, but the land és always here, And the people cand understand it ane who own it—Jor a little while.” Willa Cather, O Pioneers! PLA UN STEEL FOS Senses of Place ‘ited by Steven Feld and Heith Basse NOTICE THIS MATZRIY ep por 1 Sara Fe Now Maxtco ‘ji iii iiiSeca of Asean Reem Pest on Ofc on 28 Sot Fe, New Meas #7506. 2188 Dice Picton Jus ODennel ic: ae Kp Dengace Deborah yon Ps ludeser Dough tao Typogrante ing lcarion Ses Ine Diselitei bythe Unmet of Workington et Libary of Conges Cain i-Pabieton Dts Senses ace eed Scien hl nd er Bao Pp = [School of Aesca Roerh adronced einai) Feckdebitegrphal feces indor ISB 0-859480-942 (on) IBN 955452-95.0 ppc) [-thuman gpppiyPhdespby- 2 BXhnology— Pilon _3, Geographic pscepon. (Fit Steven. Ha, Ket, 4-H Sue Grass wan 304.20 dea0 oss ae © 19% bythe Sebel of Anesias Rech. Allsghis served anced in the United Sater f Aner. aon of Cong Ctl xd tbe 65.3135 Send’ Hck Nets 983482 94-2 {oh a -93452-95-0 fpr) Fi edn, (Cont "ond Tken 957 by Cast Athony rays nl enamel on ged par (© 195 Carl Antony Cones the Ger aes Gry Sant hay Do More List of llustrations # ix ‘Acknowledgments ti Introduction #3 Steven Feld and Keith H, Basso {How to Get from Space to Place in a Faitly Shore Seretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomens 4 3 Baad S. Coty 1 Wisdom Sits in Places: Notes on a Western Apache Landhcape 8 53 Keith H. Bass 1 Waterfall of Song: An Acousteniokigy of Plce Resounding in Doravi Papa New Gunes #9¢ Siren Feld (An Occupied Place «137 Kathleen C. Stewart 4) Your Place and Mine: Sharing Emotional Landscapes in Wamira, Papua New Guinea 1 167 — Miriam Kahn. 6 "Where Do You Stay At?": Homeplace and Community among the Lumbee #197 Karen 1 Bla‘ora thresh” (1960-17), Concerning the compli ofthe helm oe par ‘ela eltre, se Fake (1980:21) 32). 40 Dieu and Freud (1985: ch 4). Concening “heoreticl space” se Nur ies remark tas long = mythical pace ee sem neopets, tha oder of ngs eoexiing, ii evermore than 4 Corti space (0977-117) Daten’ este ofthe collec bale oF ace fnd ees fonnd ‘Dusen (915-238) 41, Mums defetion of “internbjctive spate’ malkidinersioul symbolic rc al proces~aspastine of if eer tons ontaed ines Gand by mens af yee type of price” (9861) The tem “plas” rely Used by Monn. Faecprion nce he Tllawing sateraeat: skal itil ot dapper twill be resets goenihty win the ongoing preset and ot some ltr tine (i plc)” (98515), “cack Howe aR a each Suronomoos le" (1986209); gardens ia Gaia “conte a9 ernest howe ances ones wate msiesine in place (1986 10) Man aa emp theloction “patotepor ints” (61 42, Munn remus tha Secoclursl practices” of many sort “do noe engly >on ior shag tne and pace but ey ala} conte eae) the pe. fime in -whic thy go or” (Munn BGT, She adds ta hal races tne concretely roduing her ovm puede (19861) Thi oy ew Mee more spropeaey to ple 42. Indeed the dhstnctio berwcen cate, hai te county a the hace ‘nu evnenhip for priinel decent gonep, atl one, that ote ect eee which a ven group husts nd forgery no mean ep. Sometimes suite di Yinet—-for example in ties of drought ae! sometimes intent, io ens ‘fgood preipitton ther eatin conta changing, wich ans Ha ther comm boundaries ae alway ing Hence Snot pope ha theo wins inthe evant iste, be ested 3“ "sate at ane togetber may be ik o hive eartated» onc which wa an eagle space (14572 tes). On the infinite of aboriginal bauer se tho Myers (1991-98) the “imeparbiy af people snd place sna weit Bound arcs highly lene ino sain” re Myo io» pope ss ‘hat doe tat belng 0 “impenonl geographer apace rept 3b ppeesiting the constun of pia places Foran ising doom af Entmaric ngeerl ace Leletee (991.1994), On flay pu in Ka ca tare se Seven Feld remark tht “the concep» gubuscs the bowed oF Pcs che ia of thei connecedaci” el, this whee) l Wisdom Sits in Places Hotes on a Western Apache Landscape Keith H. Besso cei th i al ings ie eying sa nina pe ad rot exit wiht place being savaged by industsalism, when on several continents indigenous peoples ar being foscibly uprooted by wanton encroachments upon their homelands, when American indian tribes are mounting major legal ‘efforts to secure permanent protection for sacred sites now controlled by federal agencies, when philosophers and poets (and even the odd soc ‘ologist oF two) are asctting that attachments wo geographical localities contribute Fundamentally to che formation of personal and social iden- tities, when new forms of “cnviconmental awareness are being more radially charted and urgently advocated than ever inthe past—in these disordered times, when contrasting ways of living on the planet ate 3t- traeting unprecedented attention worldwide, i is unfortunate that cul- taal anthropologists seldom study what people make of places? Sensitive co the fact that human existence is irrevocably situated in time and space, and keenly aware that social life is everywhere aecont pitied though an cashags fyb rms acropolis mht be expected ro eport routinely on che varieties of meaning conferred by sic sul women! on fentres Uf clr nara suroundings et exo igraphic inquiry into cultural constructions of geographical realities is at best weakly developed. Willing enough to investigate the material and organizational means by which whole communities fishion work- able adaptations ro che physical envitonmenr, ethnographers have been notably less inclined to examine the elaborate arrayt of conceptl and [: this unseeded age, when large portions of che earth's surface ate