The Ecological Touchstones of Our Identity

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Contents Introduction 12 Discovering Landscape 12 Culture in Landscape 12 Tension and Dualities 13 Aim 14 Research approach

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Chapter One: Landscape: An Analysis 23 Landscape: A Tool of Colonialism 24 The Economic Gaze 25 The Aesthetic Gaze 28 The Act of Naming 31 Conclusion

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Chapter Two: Landscape as a Cultural Construct 32 34 Mapping: A Method of Discovery 38 Sense of Place: Genius Loci 42 Orientation of Culture within Space: The Vertical and The Horizontal 44 Orientation within Time 46 The Debate of Identity-Invention as Discovery. What about Re-discovery? 48 Conclusion Chapter Three: The Native Landscapes of Negotiation 52 Identifying the Beach, the Swamp, and the Bush. 57 The Beach 61 The Swamp 67 The Bush 69 Conclusion

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