Landscapes beyond land: New ethnographies of landscape and environment

《陆地以外的景观》探讨了世界各地人类文化的多样性如何有助于理解景观和环境。我们呼吁在研究地点长期居住的民族志学家将特定的人类经历整合到更广泛的物质、社会和经济的景观和环境描述中。我们的标题引起了人们对景观体验的许多背景的关注。我们认为，人类对土地的现实既是物质的，又是历史的，又是想象的。该系列提出了阐明这种方法的三个前沿研究主题。首先，“路线，边界，旅程”以人们根据他们所走的特定路径和路线来了解周围环境为前提，同时与访问和所有权的政治斗争。这些旅程是如何被描绘和叙述的，将在第二和第三个研讨会上进行探讨。第二篇，“感知的生态学和景观的美学”，考虑了景观和环境是如何被感知和描绘的，特别是在对比视觉和情景体验方面。在这里，我们承认“陆地之外的景观”可能包括风、一般的天气、精神力量和神话人物的住所。第三，我们研究了“景观与叙事”：风景是如何在人们讲述他们旅行的故事中被回忆起来的，而这些故事又是如何以景观的形式体现出来的。在所有这些中，人类经验与各种结构形式的关系是关键。该系列研讨会将探讨和展示民族志对这一领域的艺术和人文方法的贡献。这主要是从人类学的角度出发的——基于一个新的人类学系，它特别关注人类与环境的关系——但我们也包括来自地理和其他学科的对民族志感兴趣的研究人员。研讨会的成果将发表在著名学术杂志的特刊上。它们还将标志着一个新的景观与人类学网络的启动，这将成为该领域未来交流与合作的基础。

Landscapes beyond land asks how the diversity of human culture around the world can aid understanding of landscape and environment. We call on ethnographers - who have experience of long-term residence in their places of research- to integrate particular human experiences into the broader material, social and economic accounts of landscape and environment. Our title draws attention to the many contexts through which the human experience of landscape emerges. We suggest that the human reality of land is at once material, historical and imaginative.The series presents three cutting-edge research themes that articulate this approach. Firstly, 'Routes, Boundaries, Journeys' begin with the premise that people come to know their surroundings according to the particular paths and routes they take, while contending with the politics of access and ownership. How these journeys are become depicted and narrated is explored in the second and third workshops. The second, 'The Ecology of Perception and the Aesthetics of Landscape' considers how landscape and environment are perceived and depicted, especially in relation to contrasting visual and situational experiences. Here we acknowledge that 'landscape beyond land' may include the winds, weather in general, spiritual forces and abodes of mythical beings. Thirdly, we investigate 'Landscape and Narrative': how landscapes are recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys, and how, in turn, these stories are embodied in landscaped forms. In all of these, the relationship of human experience to various forms of structure is key.The workshop series will explore and showcase the contribution of ethnography to arts and humanities approaches in this area. This is primarily from an anthropological standpoint - being based in a new anthropology department which has a particular focus on human-environment relations- but we also include researchers with ethnographic interests from geography and other disciplines. The results of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a prestigious academic journal. They will also mark the instigation of a new Landscape and Anthropology Network that will be the basis for future communication and collaboration in this field.