The Landscape Imagination

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ID6013376
AuthorsJames Andrew Whitaker (0000-0001-9112-9931, Tulane University, corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume2
Issue1
Publication date1969-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueContingent Horizons The York University Student Journal of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2292-6739 • E-ISSN: 2292-7514
PublisherYork University Libraries (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.25071/2292-6739.68
OpenAlexW2964003147
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited27

This article considers how the research programmes of historical ecology and Amerindian perspectivism may be combined and intersected to better describe the cultural understandings, agencies, and intentionalities that underlie the processes of landscape transformation in Amazonia. These research programmes will be discussed and interrelated towards points of contiguity and conjuncture. Historical-ecological research investigates the changing relationships between human beings and their landscapes across time. In particular, it considers historical examples of landscape transformations, which are anthropogenically derived environmental changes. Amerindian-perspectivist research investigates the relationships between human beings and other species within the cosmologies of Amerindian societies in the Amazon and elsewhere. The combination of these currently regnant approaches to ethnographic research among Amerindian societies provides new opportunities to better theorize the cultural contexts for the anthropogenic actions that lead to landscape transformations in the past and present. It also provides new opportunities to better describe how cosmological understandings are grounded in the processes that articulate human beings with their broader ecological contexts. This article considers these intersections and calls for further research with Amerindian societies that combines historical ecology and Amerindian perspectivism

Amazon rainforest · Biology · Epistemology · Ethnography · Geography · Perspectivism · Sociology · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Philosophy

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