Landscapes of Origin in the Americas: Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities

by Jessica Joyce Christie

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081735560X
• ISBN13: 9780817355609
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"