18 November
space & place
You were asked to think about these issues
Ponder how close some cultures are to their sense of place and being? Consider how close your personal culture fits these descriptions.
Ponder when an attachment to homeland is a positive thing and ask yourself if it can ever also become a negative, or something self-defeating.
Read the Preston chapters, then ask yourself if "American" culture is, in its depths, as much African and Spanish as English. Ponder also the depth of historical memory expressed in the later chapters and ask yourself if this is necessarily a good thing, or is it (in this context) perhaps a "necessary" thing.
Ponder the Zuni and the Iroquois and the sense of "differentness" between the America we know and the America within the bounds of their "intimate experience of place."
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Smoke Signals
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