Customary Landscapes Flashcards
What are landscapes and what are the 4 elements of them?
- visible features of an area of land
physical elements : landforms
living elements : plants and animals
human elements : land-use , buildings , structure
transitory elements : lighting and weather conditions
- landscapes reflect a living synthesis of people and place
CARL SAUER - “THE MORPHOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE”
“The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result. Under the influence of a given culture, itself changing through time, the landscape undergoes development…”
What is a landscape garden?
grand visual displays of human’s control over nature (parks, courtyards)
What is a customary landscape?
An assemblage of land governed by the laws of an assembly
expression of a relationship between a collection of people, lands, and species through customs and practices that are regulated by their community polity.
- From landscape and scenery –> to landscape as policy and place
- reflects how ppl interact w the landscape
It is in this socio-political context that it becomes necessary to consider the role of power, and the importance of justice, in the shaping of the landscape as an area of practice and performance with both cultural and environmental implications
What is an anthropogenic landscape?
the practices and approaches for sustaining and enhancing plant and animal populations, species, and habitats and special ecosystems over the entirety of people’s territory combined
canon of plant knowledge
- 100 culturally important plant species
- Knowledge exists throughout time and places
- Once it exists = lives forever until we’re gone
COVENANTS OF RECIPROCITY
Humans form relationships with favoured plant species. These covenants, or agreements, regulate human/plant relationships in a manner that at once promotes and manages abundance of culturally important plants and plant products within ecosystems that are highly variable.
Cultural keystone places - and its downsides
- Important to know where key indigenous landscape is
- Still very site based – not living things
o Focussed on specific places – not species etc - Carries concept of keystone – extending metaphor to a point of confusion
- Not necessarily the answer
What are components of a good map?
Some ways of mapping that helps in identifying Indigenous sense of place
- Not just focussed on an archeological site
- More interaction w species (plants and animals)
- Where culturally important species live throughout the territory
