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Things held in common: Memory, space and the reconstitution of community life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2007

Abstract

This article presents the hard work, and eventual failure, of the elder branch of the main lineage within a village of steel producers to reaffirm local identity through the recreation of a common ritual space dedicated to the spirit of the village's founder, original artisan, and their ancestor. It presents this process as a struggle over the meanings and representations of community and space in a time of rapid social and economic transformation. The ultimate failure of this struggle, which only becomes evident after 15 years, has affirmed something else: the spaces of practice associated with the village's public administration and family-based commercial interests.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 2007

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