Reveries of Home

Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4438-1979-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in the world today and the means by which feelings of homeliness are secured. In particular, the volume explores the relationship between the phenomenon of globalisation and the ways in which home-making entails acts of practical and symbolic emplacement in landscapes felt to be meaningful and authentic. A series of case-studies, from Norway and West Africa, the mid-western USA, Egypt, Scotland and elsewhere, offer an illustrative array of homes made in rural communities and urban worksites, in personal life-histories and the policies of diasporic groups, in ceremonial revivals and mundane routines: in postcards, house furnishings, dreams, clothes and smells. Home-making appears as a kind of work; and it is ongoing, for ‘place’ and being ‘emplaced’ are not givens. Instead, home-making exists in time: in moments of individual and collective performance which are both mundane and memorial. Reveries of Home offers a set of cases and a set of arguments that reveal the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williksen, Solrun

Rapport, Nigel

Über Autor(innen)

Solrun Williksen is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. She has published widely on her main research areas of Fiji and Norway. Her interests include ceremonial life and ritual performance, memory, narrative and communication, refugees and immigrants and global ‘interference’ with the local and rural. Her publications in English include Memory and External Reference Points among Fijians in (Urban) Fiji (Bijdragen 2001), “Fijian Business—a Bone of Contention” in The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2002), “Can a ‘silent’ person be a ‘business’ person? The Concept of ‘Mãduã’ in Fijian Culture” in The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2004), and “On the Run: The Narrative of an Asylum Seeker,” in Cultures of Fear, eds. Linke and Taana Smith (Pluto 2009).

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. His research interests include: social theory, phenomenology, identity and individuality, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy. His books include “I am Dynamite”: An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge 2003); Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts (Routledge 2007); also, as editor, Human Nature as Capacity: Beyond Discourse and Classification (Berghahn 2010).