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At Home in the Hills
- Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders
Engelsk Paperback
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At Home in the Hills
- Sense of Place in the Scottish Borders
Engelsk Paperback

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To most outsiders, the hills of the Scottish Borders are a bleak and foreboding space - usually made to represent the stigmatized Other, Ad Finis, by the centers of power in Edinburgh, London, and Brussels. At a time when globalization seems to threaten our sense of place, people of the Scottish borderlands provide a vivid case study of how the being-in-place is central to the sense of self and identity. Since the end of the thirteenth century, people living in the Scottish Border hills have engaged in armed raiding on the frontier with England, developed capitalist sheep farming in the newly united kingdom of Great Britain, and are struggling to maintain their family farms in one of the marginal agricultural rural regions of the European Community. Throughout their history, sheep farmers living in these hills have established an abiding sense of place in which family and farm have become refractions of each other. Adopting a phenomenological perspective, this book concentrates on the contemporary farming practices - shepherding, selling lambs and rams at auctions - as well as family and class relations through which hill sheep fuse people, place, and way of life to create this sense of being-at-home in the hills.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780857451798
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0857451790
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Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2011
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
143mm
Forlag:
Berghahn Books
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2011
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