Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. Landscape in language 1
6. Ethnophysiography 25
7. Exploring philosophy of place 47
8. Embedded in place 73
9. Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography 101
10. ‘Land’ and life 121
11. Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia 143
12. Hawaiian storied place names 167
13. Between the trees and the tides 187
14. Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape 225
15. A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge 239
16. Revitalizing place names through stories and songs 261
17. Language and landscape among the Tlingit 275
18. Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern Canada 291
19. Landscape embedded in language 327
20. Navajo landscape and its contexts 343
21. Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative 353
22. Ontology of landscape in language 369
23. The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language 381
24. Classifying landscape character 395
25. Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research 411
26. Notes on contributors 435
27. Index 443