Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language

Mark, David; Turk, Andrew

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39923-0_3

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“…We combined methods informed from linguistics [56], ethnophysiography [57] and landscape ethnoecology [28] to elicit culturally recognized categories of landscape features. The methodology and elicited landscape terms are presented elsewhere in more detail [55].…”

Section: Eliciting Ethnoecological Landscape Categories Through Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We gained an overview of people's interaction with landscape features through participatory observation and field walks with local guides [28]. We then documented types of landscape features photographically and used these landscape photographs as prompts for semi-structured interviews [57]. In interviews, we asked participants to describe the landscape and its features as represented on the photograph and noted down all the terms mentioned for a photograph.…”

Section: Eliciting Ethnoecological Landscape Categories Through Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language

Wartmann

Purves

2017

Land

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Participatory mapping of local land use as the basis for planning and decision-making has become widespread around the globe. However, still relatively little is known about the conceptual underpinnings of geographic information produced through participatory mapping in given cultural and linguistic settings. In this paper, we therefore address the seemingly simple question of what is (not) represented on maps through an exploratory case study comparing land use categories participants represented on sketch maps with categories elicited through more language-focused ethnographic fieldwork. To explore landscape categorization, we conducted sketch mapping with 29 participants and in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with 19 participants from the Takana indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon. Sketch mapping resulted in 74 different feature types, while we elicited 156 landscape categories used in language, of which only 23 overlapped with feature types from the sketch mapping. Vegetation categories were highly diversified in language but seldom represented on maps, while more obviously anthropogenic features were represented on sketch maps. Furthermore, participants seldom drew culturally important landscape categories such as fallow plots or important plant harvesting sites on maps, with important potential consequences for natural resource management.

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Section: Eliciting Ethnoecological Landscape Categories Through Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Eliciting Ethnoecological Landscape Categories Through Fieldmentioning

confidence: 99%

What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language

Wartmann

Purves

2017

Land

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“…Many researchers are using GIS and information technology to study the relationship of place names and landscapes in many fields, such as linguistics, anthropology, epistemology, ontology, and environmental theory [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

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confidence: 99%

Landscape Analysis of Geographical Names in Hubei Province, China

Chen

Ren

et al. 2014

Entropy

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Hubei Province is the hub of communications in central China, which directly determines its strategic position in the country's development. Additionally, Hubei Province is well-known for its diverse landforms, including mountains, hills, mounds and plains. This area is called "The Province of Thousand Lakes" due to the abundance of water resources. Geographical names are exclusive names given to physical or anthropogenic geographic entities at specific spatial locations and are important signs by which humans understand natural and human activities. In this study, geographic information systems (GIS) technology is adopted to establish a geodatabase of geographical names with particular characteristics in Hubei Province and extract certain geomorphologic and environmental factors. We carry out landscape analysis of mountain-related geographical names and water-related geographical names respectively. In the end, we calculate the information entropy of geographical names of each county to describe the diversity and inhomogeneity of place names in Hubei province. Our study demonstrates that geographical names represent responses to the cultural landscape and physical environment. The geographical names are more interesting in specific landscapes, such as mountains and rivers. OPEN ACCESSEntropy 2014, 16 6314

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“…358ff.). Mark and Turk (2003) show the detailed way in which the Australian Yindjibarndi categorise the landscape in which they live. They show that the 'basic level categories in a language must be tuned to the variations in the particular environment in which a speech community lives, and to the ways in which that environment affords various activities essential to life, if it is to provide the common terms needed in every-day speech' (Mark & Turk, 2003 , p. 12).…”

Section: Landscape Time and Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

African Landscapes

2009

Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation

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Landscape Categories in Yindjibarndi: Ontology, Environment, and Language

Cited by 91 publications

References 14 publications

What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language

What’s (Not) on the Map: Landscape Features from Participatory Sketch Mapping Differ from Local Categories Used in Language

Landscape Analysis of Geographical Names in Hubei Province, China

African Landscapes

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