By David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult, David Stea
Panorama is key to human adventure. but until eventually lately, the research of panorama has been fragmented one of the disciplines. This quantity makes a speciality of how panorama is represented in language and concept, and what this unearths in regards to the relationships of individuals to put and to land. Scientists of varied disciplines corresponding to anthropologists, geographers, details scientists, linguists, and philosophers deal with a number of questions, together with: Are there cross-cultural and cross-linguistic diversifications within the delimitation, category, and naming of geographic good points? Can replacement world-views and conceptualizations of panorama be used to provide culturally-appropriate Geographic info structures (GIS)? themes integrated: ontology of panorama; panorama phrases and ideas; toponyms; religious facets of land and panorama phrases; learn equipment; moral dimensions of the examine; and its strength worth to indigenous groups interested in this kind of learn.
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Turk, David M. ) yirdiya Tracks road, track, trail (respect language) road, track, trail Key aspects of interest The way that Yindjibarndi terms subdivide and represent landscape features differs considerably from terms used in the English language. Key aspects of these differences are: – There are no terms for types of landscape features not found in traditional Yindjibarndi country, except for thanardi (ocean, sea). – One term marnda covers a wide range of features of different sizes: things that would be called ‘hill,’ ‘mountain,’ ‘ridge,’ ‘range,’ ‘rock,’ ‘stone,’ etc.