"Landscape in Language: Transdisciplinary perspectives" ed. by David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult, David Stea

Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists of various disciplines such as anthropologists, geographers, information scientists, linguists, and philosophers address several questions

Including:
Are there cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variations in the delimitation, classification, and naming of geographic features?
Can alternative world-views and conceptualizations of landscape be used to produce culturally-appropriate Geographic Information Systems (GIS)?

Topics:
• ontology of landscape;
• landscape terms and concepts;
• toponyms;
• spiritual aspects of land and landscape terms;
• research methods;
• ethical dimensions of the research; and
• potential value to indigenous communities involved in this type of research.

Table of contents
Foreword
Preface
Landscape in language: An introduction - David M. Mark, Andrew G. Turk, Niclas Burenhult and David Stea
Ethnophysiography - Andrew G. Turk, David M. Mark and David Stea
Exploring philosophy of place: Potential for synergy between phenomenology and ethnophysiography - Andrew G. Turk
Embedded in place: ‘Mirror knowledge’ and ‘simultaneous landscapes’ among Māori - Brian Murton
Philosophical issues in ethnophysiography: Landform terms, disciplinarity, and the question of method - Bruce B. Janz
‘Land’ and life: Ethnoecology and ethnogeography as complementary approaches to the analyses of landscape perception - Chris S. Duvall
Landscape in Western Pantar, a Papuan outlier of southern Indonesia - Gary Holton
Hawaiian storied place names: Re-placing cultural meaning - Renee Pualani Louis
Between the trees and the tides: Inuit ways of discriminating space in a coastal and boreal landscape - Scott A. Heyes
Differing conceptualizations of the same landscape: The Athabaskan and Eskimo language boundary in Alaska - Gary Holton
A case study in Ahtna Athabascan geographic knowledge - James Kari
Revitalizing place names through stories and songs - Susan Paskvan
Language and landscape among the Tlingit - Thomas F. Thornton
Language, landscape and ethnoecology, reflections from northwestern Canada - Leslie Main Johnson
Landscape embedded in language: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and their named places - Stephen C. Jett
Navajo landscape and its contexts - Carmelita Topaha
Navigating regional landscapes with Jicarilla personal narrative - Elizabeth M. Lynch
Ontology of landscape in language - Werner Kuhn
The role of geospatial technologies for integrating landscape in language: Geographic Information Systems and the Cree of northern Quebec - Renée Sieber and Christopher Wellen
Classifying landscape character - Lars Brabyn and David M. Mark
Perspectives on the ethical conduct of landscape in language research - Andrew G. Turk and David M. Mark
Notes on contributors
Index