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Ethnographies of place: a new urban research agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Alan Mayne
Affiliation:
Dept of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Susan Lawrence
Affiliation:
Dept of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

Abstract

How might one tap the idioms of vanished communities once local knowledge has faded? How might one chart the mental landscapes of locales that have been overlaid by other people's understandings and whose material forms have been erased by urban redevelopment? This paper integrates history and archaeology as it attempts an ethnographic re-reading of one such precinct in Melbourne, Australia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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