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The issue of belonging is crucial to the study of identity within social anthropology. "Locality and Belonging" explores how territory can become intertwined with belonging and shape a sense of community, often through bodily images, imagined pasts and experienced space. The contributors provide an international overview of the relationship between locality and belonging, with rigorous case studies from the Congo, Togo, Amazonia, Indonesia, Za...

An ethnographically rich account of the Vodhum (voodoo) cult amongst the Watchi in Southern Togo.

An ethnographically rich account of the Vodhum (voodoo) cult amongst the Watchi in Southern Togo.

Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the ...