Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists of
Landscape in language : transdisciplinary perspectives
β Scribed by David M Mark; et al
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 464
- Series
- Culture and language use, v. 4
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Content: 1. Foreword, pix-x; 2. Preface, pxi-xiii; 3. Landscape in language: An introduction (by Mark, David M.), p1-24; 4. Ethnophysiography (by Turk, Andrew G.), p25-45; 5. Exploring philosophy of place: Potential for synergy between phenomenology and ethnophysiography (by Turk, Andrew G.), p47-72; 6. Embedded in place: 'Mirror knowledge' and 'simultaneous landscapes' among Maori (by Murton, Brian), p73-100; 7. Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography: Landform terms, disciplinarity, and the question of method (by Janz, Bruce B.), p101-119; 8. 'Land' and life: Ethnoecology and ethnogeography as complementary approaches to the analyses of landscape perception (by Duvall, Chris), p121-141; 9. Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia (by Holton, Gary), p143-166; 10. Hawaiian storied place names: Re-placing cultural meaning (by Louis, Renee Pualani), p167-186; 11. Between the trees and the tides: Inuit ways of discriminating space in a coastal and boreal landscape (by Heyes, Scott A.), p187-223; 12. Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape: The Athabaskan and Eskimo language boundary in Alaska (by Holton, Gary), p225-237; 13. A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge (by Kari, James), p239-260; 14. Revitalizing place names through stories and songs (by Paskvan, Susan), p261-274; 15. Language and landscape among the Tlingit (by Thornton, Thomas F.), p275-289; 16. Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern Canada (by Johnson, Leslie Main), p291-326; 17. Landscape embedded in language: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and their named places (by Jett, Stephen C.), p327-342; 18. Navajo landscape and its contexts (by Topaha, Camelita), p343-351; 19. Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative (by Lynch, Elizabeth M.), p353-368; 20. Ontology of landscape in language (by Kuhn, Werner), p369-379; 21. The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language: Geographic Information Systems and the Cree of northern Quebec (by Sieber, Renee), p381-393; 22. Classifying landscape character (by Brabyn, Lars), p395-409; 23. Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research (by Turk, Andrew G.), p411-434; 24. Notes on contributors, p435-441; 25. Index, p443-449
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