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QXD 9/9/2001 10:32 AM Page 35 Home 35 Home as Core Node/Centre • Nothing can be done without a previous orientation, and any orientation implies acquiring a fixed point. For this reason, religious man has always sought to fix his abode at ‘the centre of the world’ (Eliade 1957, 22). • And lastly, in the name of fire, which controlled, is the greatest friend of man and uncontrolled, his most relentless enemy; greatest of forces; worshipped since the most ancient times; focusing point of mankind.
Nation: “O Canada! ” (Lavallée and Routhier 1880). Earth: “To be at home on the planet and welcome here, humanity must understand and appreciate the primacy of that home, the Eden we have never left, and the wild that is its emblem” (Rowe 1990, 34). The concept of home as a hierarchy of places may also be seen as a clustering at various spatial levels; for example, there is a link between room and dwelling. The dwelling is then set in a neighbourhood and the neighbourhood in a village, town, or city (or in the case of a rural area, in a landscape).
Even when I’m no longer here. Wherever I go ... and whatever I am ... this is me. Hannah Hauxwell and B. Cockcroft, Seasons of My Life, 1989 Everyone knows what “home” means. Yet, this apparently simple concept has been the subject of countless studies, many stories, and much art and poetry. Home has been a theme of research in disciplines as varied as anthropology, environmental psychology, sociology, gerontology, women’s studies, history, ethnoarchaeology, architecture, education, planning, and geography.