‘Siting’ and ‘sighting’ texts From the vantage point of hindsight: reflecting on the first

This third chapter has originated from a gradual and ongoing reflection on my theoretical approach to place and senses of place, my fieldwork and my writing process. The onset of such a reflection was due to the fact that during the writing up of the first two chapters and in my field-notes, I noticed that the production of the two accounts differed to a considerable degree. These initial products, in other words, although belonging to the same research topic, seemed to show a substantial variation in the form of writing and, consequently, in the way knowledge, understanding and senses of the places in question were starting to be presented in an ethnographic account.