ABSTRACT
There is a lot of rethinking going on among anthropologists about the relation between people and place that has served as the assumed analytic foundation for some of our most cherished concepts – culture, identity and community – concepts that refer to a ‘social sense of spatial distinctiveness’ (Nadel-Klein 1991: 501) as well as a spatial sense of social distinctiveness. This rethinking has been brought about by anthropologists perceiving a ‘predicament of emplacement’ confronting both parties involved in the ethnographic relation.
