CDNS 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Htc, Wild Rice, Carolyn Quinn

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 2400
• Professor: Stuart Lazear

Document Summary

Cultural landscapes as heritage: carl sauer the morphology of the landscape 1925, where the term came from; sauer was a geographer, this definition is the origin for cultulra landscape: The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. Embedded assumptions: focuses on visible forms as principle features of analysis, focuses on shape rather than shaping of landscape, assumes culture is: super-organic; homogenous; distinct from nature, assumption that it"s evil"; againt landscape. The material expression of a (seemingly unified) cultural group who live in that region. ". Cultural landscape and unesco: unesco is where the definition of cultural landscape entered the discourse of heritage, the lake district, u. k. (image shown) It became the place where the concept was defined for heritage: 1986 saw nomination of this property and again in 1989, three reasons were identified for why it had universal value: