A house writes its story through an amanuensis. In the memory landscape of place a house sits still in time while everything else moves around it. It is a space that elicits stories: an instrument of mnemonic contact.The small stories of a winemaking community emanate from the nub of the house. They construct a biographical narrative that links the past to the present. In this article we offer the framework of linguistic ethnography as a way to pin definable method to indefinable memory. Language conveys meaning by constructing the narrative. And it is through the narrative process that the search for personal identity and a sense of belonging begins.
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