Summary of “Home in North America”

Summary of “Home in North America”
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Summary of “Home in North America”
“Home in North America” by Engel et al. (1999) focuses on making North America a home as discussed by Barry Lopez in The Rediscovery of North America (Engel et al., 1999). In that light, the primary argument of the article is developing intimacy with a specific landscape, North America, in this scenario. Lopez argues that making a place home depends on the relationship that individuals occupying the landscape have and how the destruction of that place can wound them.
Specifically, there exist three primary things that determine how people bond with a place they want to make a home. First, individuals should interact well with the landscape through emotional bonding. Second, they need time, which mig...