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Above The Oxbow: The Construction Of Place On Mount Holyoke, Danielle R. Raad
Above The Oxbow: The Construction Of Place On Mount Holyoke, Danielle R. Raad
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is a study of the orogenesis of Mount Holyoke, or the making of place on a mountain. It is an orogenic ethnography and a contemporary archaeological ethnography of place. Mount Holyoke is a mountain in Western Massachusetts that rises above the Connecticut River Valley. It is a prominent destination for tourists and locals alike to recreate outdoors in a state park, to observe the view of the valley below, and to visit the historic, nineteenth-century Summit House. I explore the nature and nuances of attachment to Mount Holyoke through time, by examining conceptions of place over two centuries. …
Concepts Of Place And Identity In The Iron Age Of Idalion, Cyprus: An Analysis Of Architectural Repetition, Rebecca M. Bartusewich
Concepts Of Place And Identity In The Iron Age Of Idalion, Cyprus: An Analysis Of Architectural Repetition, Rebecca M. Bartusewich
Rebecca M Bartusewich
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Cultural Discourse Of Dwelling: Environmental Comunication As A Place-Based Practice, Donal Carbaugh
Cultural Discourse Of Dwelling: Environmental Comunication As A Place-Based Practice, Donal Carbaugh
Donal Carbaugh
In this essay we contribute a response to intellectual and practical problems by using and developing a perspective on environmental communication that is reflexively grounded in place and that explores human relations with nature, while embracing cultural and linguistic variability in these processes. Our goals are to introduce a way to think through communication to places, and further to link that understanding to issues of engaged environmental action, to deeply seated notions of identity, and to the affective dimension of belonging that place-based communication often brings with it. Our way of doing this is to theorize and study cultural discourses …