Conversations With Landscape (Anthropological Studies of by Karl Benediktsson, Katrín Anna Lund

By Karl Benediktsson, Katrín Anna Lund

Conversations With panorama strikes past the traditional dualisms linked to panorama, exploring notions of panorama and its relation with people throughout the metaphor of dialog. Such an method conceives of panorama as an actor within the ongoing verbal exchange that's inherent in any conception, recognising the often-ignored mutuality of encounters among human and non-human actors. With contributions drawn from various disciplines, together with anthropology, geography, archaeology, philosophy, literature and the visible arts, this ebook explores the impacts and feelings engendered within the conversations among panorama and people. delivering scope for an unique and coherent method of the research of panorama, this ebook will entice students and researchers throughout a number social sciences and arts.

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Glaciers are therefore perhaps one of the most visible markers of global warming. In many parts of the world, this will lead to water shortage. One can for example only imagine the catastrophic effects of diminished water supply in the rivers of India and China that have their origins in glaciers of the Himalaya mountain range. This kind of an experience of interaction with nature is an experience of the intertwining of culture and nature. Like Bruno Latour argues, the world is one gigantic laboratory in which nature and culture are in constant interaction (Latour 2003).

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The living body intends towards the sphere of perception and the sphere of perception embodies its intentionalities. We therefore form our world and the world forms us at the same time. Intentionality flows in a circle that goes from the world into us and from us into the world, over and over again. Merleau-Ponty (1969) ties the body to nature by elaborating the conception of “flesh” (fr. chair). The flesh of the world is everything, world, society, nature, body and so on. The body is one of the instantiations of the flesh.

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