ABSTRACT
Earthly dwelling focuses on the significance of the human-earth relationship for understanding not just what makes us human but also how we are made human in relation to the earth as world. Earthly dwelling highlights the relational totality of being human-in-the-world, and by way of illustration I focus on some of the primary meaning-making referents through which this relationship is understood, namely, time, place, history and memory. This tourism fourfold is experienced in and through the places, people, buildings, souvenirs, landscapes and activities that are part of what tourists do. By focusing on the museum, the chapter argues that the collection and display of culture, nature and ways of thinking and being reflect particular configurations of time, place, history and memory. Configurations that speak of the diverse ways in which human subjects come to make and remake who they are in the world. In this sense museums are highly visible expressions of particular understandings, and more precisely particular moments, of earthly dwelling.
