Type of course

Admission requirements

Course content

The course is designed to give Masters students an overview of debates on landscape in anthropology, archaeology, and indigenous studies. The course will review theories of landscape, will present several contextualised examples of how culture, history and material culture come together in specific landscapes, and will address how issues of land-use and attachment to place frame political controversies. The course will emphasise how ethnographic analysis allows one to understand landscape. Students will be required to read and master one ethnographic monograph as well as understand the range of insights that ethnography can offer.

Objectives of the course

Students who successfully complete this course should achieve the following learning outcome:

Knowledge

• have an overview of the theory and substantive examples of the use of landscape
• recognise different ways of theorising landscape
  
  Skills and competences
• be able to analyse an ethnographic monograph
• be able to frame social issues within the theme of landscape

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

Assessment

Recommended reading/syllabus

Approximately 700 pages.

READING LIST SPRING 2012
There will be a course reader that contains some of the articles and chapters, while others are available on the internet. A reading list with links that work will be put on Fronter for SOA-3009 in the beginning of January.

REQUIRED MONOGRAPH

Cruikshank, Julie. 2005. Do Glaciers Listen? : Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination. Brenda and David McLean Canadian Studies Series Vancouver, BC : UBC Press. 326p.

REQUIRED CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES
1. INTRODUCTION
Introduction from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? 17 p

Hirsch, Eric 1995 "Introduction. Landscape between place and place" in Hirsch, Eric, and Michael O¿Hanlon (eds.). The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-30, 30 p

2. METAPHORS OF LANDSCAPE
Krupnik, Igor, Rachel Mason, and Tania Horton (editors). 2004. "Introduction: Landscapes, Perspectives, and Nations" in Northern Ethnographic Landscapes: Perspectives from Circumpolar Nations. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of History, Smithsonian Institution. 1-16, 16p

Appadurai, A. (1991). Global ethnoscapes: Notes and queries for a transnational anthropology. In R. Fox, Recapturing anthropology. Working in present Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research. (pp. 191-210), 19 p

Foucault, Michel 1967 "Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias" http://foucault.info/documents/heteroTopia/foucault.heteroTopia.en.html, 9 p

3. THEORIES OF LANDSCAPE
Ch 3. from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?, 40 p

Basso K. 1997 "Wisdom Sits in Places" in Feld, Steven and Basso, Keith H. 1997. Senses of Place. Santa Fe NM: School of American Research Press. 53-90, 37 p

Casey, E. 1997 "How to get from space to place in a fairly short stretch of time" in Feld, Steven and Basso, Keith H. 1997. Senses of Place. Santa Fe NM: School of American Research Press. 14-51, 37 p

Ingold, Tim. 2000. "Ch11. The temporality of the landscape" in The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge. Pp. 189-208. 20 p

4. WILDERNESS
Ch 5,6. from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? 56 p

Oliver, J. 2007 Beyond the Water¿s Edge: Towards a Social Archaeology of Landscape on the Northwest Coast. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 31(1): 1-27, 27 p

Wishart, Rob. 2004 "A Story about a Muskox: Some Implications of Tetlit Gwich¿in Human-Animal Relationships" in D.G. Anderson and M. Nuttall (eds.) Cultivating Arctic Landscapes: Knowning and Managing Animals in the Circumpolar North. Oxford: Berghahn. Pp. 79-92. 13 p
Knight, John. 1996 When Timber Grows Wild: The Desocialisation of Japanese Mountain Forests. In Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, edited by P. Descola and G. Palsson, pp. 221-239. Routledge, London. 18 p

5. SCENTIENT LANDSCAPES
Ch 3 & 4. from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?

Bird-David, Nurit. 1999. "Animism Revisted: Personhood, Environment and Relational Epistemology Current Anthropology vol 40 supp S67-S91. 24 p

Mackenzie, A Fiona D and Simon Dalby. 2003 "Moving Mountains: Community and Resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Canada" Antipode vol 35 (2): 309-333, 24 p

Wallis, Robert J. 2009 "Re-enchanting Rock Art Landscapes: Animic Ontologies, Nonhuman Agency and Rhizomic personhood" Time and Mind vol 2 (1): 47-70, 23 p

6. PROTECTED LANDSCAPES

Ch 1 and 2. from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? 53 p

Ingold, Tim. 2000. "Ch12. Globes and Spheres: The Topology of Environmentalism" in The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. London: Routledge. Pp 209-218, 10 p

Igoe, Jim. 2002 "National parks and Human Ecosystems: the challenge to community conservation " in Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, forced settlement, and sustainable development. Ed. D.Chatty and M.Colchester. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Olwig, K. 2007 ¿Conventions¿ and the just landscape: The case of the European landscape convention Landscape Research vol:32 nr:5 side:579-594, 18 p

Taylor, Ken. 2009 "Cultural Landscapes and Asia: Reconciling International and Southeast Asian Regional Values" Landscape research 34 (1) : 7-31, 14 p

7. MAPPING AND COUNTERMAPPING
Ch 7 & 8. from Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen? 47 p

Roth, Robin. 2009. The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: from abstract space to dwelling space" Cultural Geographies vol 16 (2): 207-227. 20 p

Rundstrom, Robert A. 1990. A cultural interpretation of Inuit map accuracy Geographical Review 80 (2) 155-168, 13 p

Davidson-Hunt, Iain and Fikret Birkes. 2010. "Journeying and Remembering: Anishinaabe Landscape Ethnoecology from Northwestern Ontario" In: Landscape Ethnoecology (L.M. Johnson and E.S. Hunn, eds.) Berghahn, New York and Oxford, pp. 222-240, 17 p

Fox, Jefferson. 2002. Siam Mapped and Mapping in Cambodia: Boundaries, Sovereignty,and Indigenous Conceptions of Space. Society and Natural Resources 15, no. 1: 65-78, 13 p

8. SEASCAPES
Aporta, Claudio 2010. "Life Under the Ice: Understanding the Codes of a Changing Environment " In: Landscape Ethnoecology (L.M. Johnson and E.S. Hunn, eds.) Berghahn, New York and Oxford, pp. 175-199. 24 p

Maurstad, Anita 2004. "Cultural Seascapes" in Northern Ethnographic Landscapes: Perspectives from Circumpolar Nations. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of History, Smithsonian Institution. 277-300, 23 p

Goodenough, Ward. 1996. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science. in Naked Science: Anthropological Inquiry into Boundaries, Power, and Knowledge. ed., ed. Nader, Laura, 29-42. New York: Routledge. 13 p

McNiven, Ian J. 2003. "Saltwater People: Spiritscapes, maritime rituals and the archaeology of Australian indigenous seascapes" World Archaeology vol 35 (3): 329-349, 20 p

9 LANDSCAPES OF POWER
Gordillo, G. 2002 "The Breath of Devils" American Ethnologist 29 (1) 33-57, 22 p

Feit, Harvey A. 2004. Contested identities of ¿Indians¿ and ¿Whitemen¿ at James Bay, or the power of reason, hybridity and agency. in Circumpolar Ethnicity and Identity. eds. Irimoto, Takashi and Yamada, Takako, 109-126. Osaka: Senri publications. 17 p

Navaro-Yashin, Yael 2009 "Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge," Malinowski Memorial Lecture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI), vol, 15, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-18.20 p