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By G. V. Loewen

What does position suggest for people? What does it suggest to exist in house? How will we position ourselves not just in actual area, yet in the inside panorama of recognition? Place Meant is an interdisciplinary exploration of those and comparable questions, during the lenses of psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, geography, folklore, memoir, and the background of principles. will probably be of curiosity to a person who has traveled the earth and meditated their dating to domestic, away, and the area at large.

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