Bloom comes out with the why and the wherefore and all the codology of the business.

Certes (said he) well mote I shame to tell / The fond encheason, that me hither led.

Using a human ecological perspective, this essay argues for a reappraisal of indigeneity in a European context, drawing on an ethnology based on topography, topology and, fundamentally, toposophy to transcend the binary and trinary analytical confines of a world divided into Self, Other and, more recently also, Third.

When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea.