Landscape in Language

Transdisciplinary perspectives

Editors

David M. Mark | University at Buffalo (SUNY)

Andrew G. Turk | Murdoch University

Niclas Burenhult | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen and Lund University

David Stea | Texas State University

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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 various disciplines such as anthropologists, geographers, information scientists, linguists, and philosophers address several questions, including: Are there cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variations in the delimitation, classification, and naming of geographic features? Can alternative world-views and conceptualizations of landscape be used to produce culturally-appropriate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? Topics included: ontology of landscape; landscape terms and concepts; toponyms; spiritual aspects of land and landscape terms; research methods; ethical dimensions of the research; and its potential value to indigenous communities involved in this type of research.

[Culture and Language Use, 4] 2011. xiii, 449 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 26 May 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/clu.4

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. ix–x

Preface | pp. xi–xiii

Landscape in language: An introduction

David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea | pp. 1–24

Ethnophysiography

Andrew G. Turk, David M. Mark and David Stea | pp. 25–45

Exploring philosophy of place: Potential for synergy between phenomenology and ethnophysiography

Andrew G. Turk | pp. 47–72

Embedded in place: ‘Mirror knowledge’ and ‘simultaneous landscapes’ among Māori

Brian Murton | pp. 73–100

Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography: Landform terms, disciplinarity, and the question of method

Bruce B. Janz | pp. 101–119

‘Land’ and life: Ethnoecology and ethnogeography as complementary approaches to the analyses of landscape perception

Chris Duvall | pp. 121–141

Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia

Gary Holton | pp. 143–166

Hawaiian storied place names: Re-placing cultural meaning

Renee Pualani Louis | pp. 167–186

Between the trees and the tides: Inuit ways of discriminating space in a coastal and boreal landscape

Scott A. Heyes | pp. 187–223

Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape: The Athabaskan and Eskimo language boundary in Alaska

Gary Holton | pp. 225–237

A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge

James Kari | pp. 239–260

Revitalizing place names through stories and songs

Susan Paskvan | pp. 261–274

Language and landscape among the Tlingit

Thomas F. Thornton | pp. 275–289

Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern Canada

Leslie Main Johnson | pp. 291–326

Landscape embedded in language: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and their named places

Stephen C. Jett | pp. 327–342

Navajo landscape and its contexts

Camelita Topaha | pp. 343–351

Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative

Elizabeth M. Lynch | pp. 353–368

Ontology of landscape in language

Werner Kuhn | pp. 369–379

The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language: Geographic Information Systems and the Cree of northern Quebec

Renée Sieber and Christopher Wellen | pp. 381–393

Classifying landscape character

Lars Brabyn and David M. Mark | pp. 395–409

Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research

Andrew G. Turk and David M. Mark | pp. 411–434

Notes on contributors | pp. 435–441

Index | pp. 443–449

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