Mapping the Mythological Landscape: an Aboriginal Way of Being-in-the-World

Autor:	Paul Faulstich
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Structure (mathematical logic) Cognitive systems History Cultural ecology Mythology Space (commercial competition) Law Being in the world Visual arts
Zdroj:	Ethics, Place & Environment. 1:197-221
ISSN:	1469-6703 1366-879X
DOI:	10.1080/1366879x.1998.11644228
Popis:	Warlpiri Aborigines utilize graphic and cognitive systems to represent their connections to landscape. The Dreaming is the primary mechanism through which Warlpiri organize and understand the significance of places. Each Dreaming myth has an accompanying graphic map, which references incidents and places associated with Ancestors. The maps recount sites along Dreaming tracks, and provide assessments of resources. Warlpiri create these coded images to coordinate physiographic and mythical components of the landscape. They structure knowledge about the world and facilitate the recollection of activities in space. Dreaming maps signify, among other things, aspects of cultural ecology around which society is organized.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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