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The Elementary Forms of Place and Their Transformations: A Durkheimian Model
Authors:Smith  Philip
Affiliation:(1) Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Abstract:
Due to the fragmentary nature of research findings and conceptual models, the Durkheimian legacy remains undervalued in contemporary spatial theory. The paper addresses this neglect by proposing a unified Durkheimian model of place which can be applied to case history and comparative analyses. It draws together the fragmented insights of Durkheimian theory to characterize four elementary forms of place: sacred, profane, liminal and mundane. These place/space identities are maintained and transformed through rituals and narratives which depend upon contingent human actions for their sustenance. The paper concludes with an extended case study which deploys the model to explain the changing meanings of the site of the Bastille (Paris, France) over the past two centuries.
Keywords:spatial theory  place  narrative  Durkheim  Bastille
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