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Landscape in language : transdisciplinary perspectives /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Culture and language use ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Landscape in Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Preface; Landscape in language; Ethnophysiography; Exploring philosophy of place; Embedded in place; Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography; 'Land' and life; Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia; Hawaiian storied place names; Between the trees and the tides; Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape; A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge; Revitalizing place names through stories and songs; Language and landscape among the Tlingit.
- Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern CanadaLandscape embedded in language; Navajo landscape and its contexts; Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative; Ontology of landscape in language; The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language; Classifying landscape character; Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research; Notes on contributors; Index.