Re-Reading the Landscape

Place and Identity in NE Australia During the Late Holocene

Bibliographic Data

ID6045005
AuthorsBruno David (0000-0002-8567-6135), Meredith Wilson (0000-0003-2305-2033)
Year1999
Volume9
Issue2
Pages163-188
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0959774300015365
OpenAlexW2057195974
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited28

Through an examination of land use during the late Holocene, this article explores the changing nature of place and identity in what is today Djungan country (NE Australia). We begin with the notion that use of place is mediated by historically positioned systems of meaning. We further contend that through praxis (as social practice), experience of place participates in the structuring and construction of identity. By examining changes in the way a distinctive mountain — Ngarrabullgan (Mt Midligan) — has been incorporated within the broader socio-cultural landscape through time, we conclude that major alterations took place in peoples’ relations to their surroundings, and by implication in the construction of landscapes, life experiences and identity, around the fourteenth century AD. This has implications for the way we project ethnographic details, attuned to Dreaming-based ontological views of the world, into the more distant past

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural identity · Cultural landscape · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · Landscape archaeology · Landscape design · Meaning (existential · Negotiation · Political science · Praxis · Reading (process · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Psychology · Gender Studies · History

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