Subject: Re: Boundary quote
Date: Jul 13, 2004 @ 13:43
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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hey i read that book too
& must say your teachers are looking like the most ignorant
people in their society again

for their & your quote here is not about geopolitical boundaries at
all
but about sacred space
or in other words
quite the opposite

for the fuller context
please see the 3rd paragraph from the bottom here
http://www.ku24.com/~darrell/mnem-arch1.html
or better yet
i would mightily recommend the entire book

the sacred & the profane

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> In my political geography professor's class syllabus from
1977, I find this
> quote about boundaries and points:
>
> "For it is the break effected in space that allows the world to be
constituted,
> because it reveals the fixed point, the central axis for all future
> orientation."--Mircea Eliade
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA