ABSTRACT
The structure of space is marked by different levels of scale and orientation, ranging vertically from home to street to region to nation. At the smaller end of the scale lies home, community, or district, that is, the places in which people move most often in daily life. Starting in the most local of places, the folklife scholar establishes a grounding within the region that will allow the expansion of ethnographic activity outward to arrive at an understanding of how people experience and evaluate local, regional, and ethnic place.
