Landscapes of Origin in the Americas
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Americas
ancestral
anthropological landscape studies
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cultural
cultural geography
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folklore in landscapes
identity formation
Indigenous
Inka Pacariqtambo
landscapes of origins
Maya origin
Mesoamerican origin myths
Native American creation stories
Navajo origin landscape
origin narratives
sacred landscapes Americas
sacred spaces
Southern Paiute sacred mountains
Product details
- ISBN 9780817355609
- Weight: 388g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points. In conventional anthropological literature, 'landscape' is the term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group has constructed to define the origins or beginnings of that cultural group as revealed through shared or traditional memory. The cultural landscapes of origins in diverse sites throughout the Americas are investigated through multidisciplinary research, not only to reveal the belief system and mythologies but also to place these origin beliefs in context and relationship to each other. In a continual interaction between the past, present, and future, time is subordinate to place, and history, as defined in Western academic terms, does not exist.
Jessica Joyce Christie is Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design, Leo Jenkins Fine Arts Center, East Carolina University.
