Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because
of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and
the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological
events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as
timeless reference points.
In conventional anthropological literature, "landscape" is the
term applied to the meaning local people bestow on their cultural
and physical surroundings. In this work, the authors explore the
cultural and physical landscapes an individual or cultural group
has constructed to define the origins or beginnings of that
cultural group as revealed through shared or traditional memory.
The cultural landscapes of origins in diverse sites throughout the
Americas are investigated through multidisciplinary research, not
only to reveal the belief system and mythologies but also to place
these origin beliefs in context and relationship to each other. In
a continual interaction between the past, present, and future, time
is subordinate to place, and history, as defined in Western
academic terms, does not exist.
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