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Landscapes of Origin in the Americas : Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
Landscapes of Origin in the Americas : Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
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ISBN No.: 9780817355609
Pages: 280
Year: 200909
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 44.68
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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 belief systems 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, tune is subordinate to place, and history, as defined in Western academic terms, does not exist. Book jacket.


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