Relph, 1976

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What are the 2 major reasons for attempting to understand the phenomenon of place?

  1. It is interesting in its own right as a fundamental expression of man's involvement in the world
  2. Improved knowledge of the nature of place can contibute to the maintenance and manipulation of existing places and the creation of new places.

What are the 3 basic elements of the identity of places?

  1. Static physical setting
  2. Activities
  3. Meanings

What is it to be inside a place?

To belong to it and to identify with it, and the more profoundly inside you are the stronger is this identity with the place.
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What are the 3 levels of assimilation of anthropologists into the cultures which they study?

  1. Behavioural
    • engaging in the activities of the culture while remaining a dispassionate observer
  2. Empathetic
    • involving emotional as well as behavioural participation
    • while retaining an awareness of not being a full member of the culture
  3. Cognitive or 'going native'
    • it ceases to be possible to do cultural anthropology

What are examples of pseudo places?

Disney land.

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