Knowing Your Place
Subtitle: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 25, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780415915458
First sentence: THIS chapter is an inquiry into social inequality and identity in Trinidad, West Indies, from a perspective still atypical in analyses of multicultural postcolonial New World societies.
Description: Bringing together noted anthropologists and literary scholars, Knowing Your Place explores rural identity in a number of cultures and situations. Essays examine the distinction between popular and high culture, the explosion of high technology, the impact of environmental policy, the role of labor in the global marketplace, museum representations, and postcolonial politics.

Throughout, the essays address the many ways in which place identity alters and influences the experiences of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality.