This report presents the results of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Timber Mountain Caldera (TMC) on the NTS. Volcanic in origin, the caldera is a geologic feature that was formed when a large volcano collapse thousands of years ago producing the large circular crater that exists today. Since that event, the caldera has experienced other volcanic eruptions making a complex topographic landscape. The ethnographic fieldwork (conducted in 2005) that forms the foundation of this report included official tribal representatives from the Owens Valley Paiute, Western Shoshone, and Southern Paiute ethnic groups. This report presents the findings of the tribal representatives’ visits to several sites in the TMC and the cultural value associated with it. These research findings are based upon interviews conducted with tribal representatives selected by the American Indian Writers Subgroup of the culturally affiliated Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations (CGTO).

Master of Landscape Architecture / Department of Landscape Architecture / Mary Catherine (Katie) Kingery-Page / History is embedded in a landscape. History of a community is embedded in the landscape where land was inhabited, cultivated, and where people have and continue to thrive. Rural communities have this embedded history and culture to look back. However, these communities are suffering from loss of population, jobs, economic stability, and accessibility (Woods 2008). This phenomenon can destroy not only communities and peoples’ lives, but also the history and culture that is embedded in a landscape. Nicodemus, Kansas a rural communities with an important history. This history begins after the Civil War during times of new found freedom and the reality of independence for many former African-American slaves. The residents and descendants of Nicodemus are passionate and proud of their history and see their community identity as embedded in the history and culture. Nicodemus has experienced loss of population and economic vitality throughout its history. However, Nicodemans’ strong connection to the history remains intact. The study argues that art can provide a way of expressing Nicodemus, Kansas’s identity. This study is primarily an art-based investigation into what materials, mediums, and forms of art can best express the identity and history of Nicodemus, Kansas. Art-based research is less concerned with the discovery of truth than with the creation of meaning (Eisner 1981). “...[V]isual art is a significant source of information about the social world, including cultural aspects of social life” (Leavy 2009, 218). Research methods include historiography, literature review, oral history, reflexive critique and site visits, culminating in the creation of a series of mixed media artworks. Through the research and creation of artworks, the identity of Nicodemus, Kansas is expressed visually.

Non-forest woody vegetation is an important landscape feature of agricultural/rural landscape. Ph.D. thesis deals with evaluation of current state of non-forest woody vegetation, historical development and changes in configuration and composition in landscape. Non-forest woody vegetation was investigated in two physical-geographical different model areas (Kutnohorsko Region and White Carpathians). The thesis is based on own data collected in the field and digitized on historical aerial photos and current ortho-photos. After that, data were analyzed in relation to natural conditions and changes of landscape structure since 50s of 20th century until present. Comparing both model areas, assumed differences in character of non-forest woody vegetation, species composition, dominated type as well as relation to habitats/locations were confirmed. However, rapid changes of landscape structure in the last 60 years were caused by the same driving forces such as re-allotment, mechanization and intensification of agriculture. After 1989, processes such extensification of agriculture and land abandonment played the main role in landscape, especially in mountain regions. The second aim of the Ph.D. thesis was to identify changes in spatial configuration of non- forest woody vegetation in two...

Nosso objetivo é investigar o processo de formação do conceito de Paisagem Cultural e sua aplicabilidade como instrumento de preservação e gestão do patrimônio urbano no contexto de crescimento e transformações das metrópoles latino-americanas. Dada a abrangência do conceito de Paisagem Cultural, o estudo inicia-se com um primeiro esforço de traçar um panorama histórico do surgimento da questão nos núcleos de discussão internacionais e sua incorporação e aplicação pelos órgãos de preservação nacionais. Uma vez esclarecido o processo de formação histórico e conceitual, analisamos o panorama geral das 88 Paisagens Culturais que figuram hoje na lista do Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO na tentativa de entender, através das características do conjunto, quais os critérios levados em consideração, na prática, para conceder o título aos sítios que representam esta categoria de patrimônio. Com o panorama geral em mente, partimos do estudo do global para o específico local, examinando dois documentos muito relevantes para o amadurecimento da discussão das Paisagens Culturais no contexto urbano latino-americano: o dossiê de candidatura à Paisagem Cultural de Buenos Aires e do Rio de Janeiro. Com essa análise comparativa de dois sítios urbanos, buscamos entender quais as características usadas como justificativa para reivindicar o título nesta categoria, como as duas cidades lidaram com a questão da preservação do patrimônio urbano e quais os possíveis motivos para a recusa ou concessão do reconhecimento dado pelo órgão internacional em ambos os casos. Assim, pudemos esclarecer, ao final da pesquisa, os potenciais e limitações apresentados por essa (não tão) nova categoria de preservação que se propõe, desde o início, a fornecer uma visão mais ampla e integrada de preservação dos sítios históricos em grande escala na tentativa de elencar as principais contribuições que essa categoria do Patrimônio Mundial poderia adicionar às discussões da preservação de áreas urbanas complexas e dinâmicas. / Our goal is to investigate the process of formation of the concept of Cultural Landscape and its applicability as a preservation tool and management of urban heritage in the context of growth and transformation of Latin American cities. Given the scope of the concept of cultural landscape, the study begins with a first effort to trace a historical overview of the emergence of the issue in international discussion of nuclei and their development and application by national organ preservation. Once clarified the process of historical and conceptual training, we analyze the overall picture of the 88 Cultural Landscapes appearing today in the World Heritage list in an attempt to understand, through the set of features, which the criteria taken into account in practice to grant the title to the sites pleiteam international recognition of this category of assets. With the big picture in mind, we start from the overall study for the site specific, examining two very relevant documents to the maturation of the discussion of Cultural Landscapes in the Latin American urban context: the application package to the Cultural Landscape of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. With this comparative analysis of two urban sites, we seek to understand what features used as justification for a title in this category, as the two cities have dealt with the issue of preservation of urban heritage and what the possible reasons for the denial or grant of recognition given by international organization in both cases. Thus, we could clarify, at the end of the research, the potential and limitations presented by this (not so) new category of preservation that is proposed from the outset, to provide a broader and more integrated view of preservation of historical sites on a large scale in attempt to list the main contributions that the World Heritage category could add to the discussions of preservation of complex and dynamic urban areas.

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A obra romanesca de Mia Couto é o objeto da investigação desta tese, ponto de partida para tentar compreender a contribuição do autor na afirmação do romance africano e na reconstrução da identidade de seu país, Moçambique. Para tanto, o estudo discute a importância da revelação de uma paisagem oculta ao leitor, de matriz cultural e complexo entendimento. O capítulo que traz esta análise mostra como a obra retrata as condições históricas e políticas de dominação, desigualdade, identificando aqui e lá um tom levemente engajado na escrita miacoutiana, tanto quanto suas posições ideológicas, suas denúncias. Entre os temas mais destacados na obra está o animismo africano que dá origem a uma série de circunstâncias sobrenaturais nos enredos, como uma lembrança constante: em África, os espíritos estão por toda a parte, mantendo intensa relação com os vivos. Em torno da questão, a tese discute o fato de parte da crítica classificar a obra por gêneros como o Realismo Mágico, o Maravilhoso e o Fantástico. Também são investigadas as estratégias narrativas deste autor, suas opções regulares na composição de enredos, personagens, nomes de personagens e epígrafes. Com base nessas marcas e em outros traços comuns a todos os seus romances talvez presentes igualmente em seus contos descobre-se a adequação entre a criação de um sistema de pensamento dicotômico, que atravessa a obra, e estruturas frasais que revelam algo significativo: os romances de Mia Couto são propositivos, especialmente quando convidam o leitor ao movimento constante de questionamento de suas próprias certezas / Mia Coutos romanesque work is the inquiry object of this thesis, trying to comprehend the authors contribution in the assertion of the African novel and in the reconstruction of the identity of his country, Mozambique. In order to do this, the study discusses the importance of revealing an occult landscape to the reader, its cultural origin and complex understanding. The chapter that brings this analysis shows how the work reflects the historical and political conditions of domination, social differences, identifying occasionally a slightly engaged accent in Mia Coutos writing, as much as his ideological position and denouncement. Among the detached subjects in the work is African animism, which originates several supernatural circumstances in the plot, as a constant remembrance: in Africa, spirits are everywhere, keeping intense relationship with the people. Around this issue, the thesis discusses the fact that part of the critics classify the work in genres such as the Magical Realism, the Marvellous and the Fantastic. Also the narrative strategies of this author are investigated, as his regular options in the creation of the plots, characters, names of characters and epigraphs. Based on these marks and in other common traces to all his novels perhaps equally present in his short stories we find adequacy between the dichotomic thought system, through the work, and the phrasings that reveal something significant: Mia Coutos novels are propositive, especially when they invite the reader to the constant movement of questioning their proper certainties

Nosso objetivo é investigar o processo de formação do conceito de Paisagem Cultural e sua aplicabilidade como instrumento de preservação e gestão do patrimônio urbano no contexto de crescimento e transformações das metrópoles latino-americanas. Dada a abrangência do conceito de Paisagem Cultural, o estudo inicia-se com um primeiro esforço de traçar um panorama histórico do surgimento da questão nos núcleos de discussão internacionais e sua incorporação e aplicação pelos órgãos de preservação nacionais. Uma vez esclarecido o processo de formação histórico e conceitual, analisamos o panorama geral das 88 Paisagens Culturais que figuram hoje na lista do Patrimônio Mundial da UNESCO na tentativa de entender, através das características do conjunto, quais os critérios levados em consideração, na prática, para conceder o título aos sítios que representam esta categoria de patrimônio. Com o panorama geral em mente, partimos do estudo do global para o específico local, examinando dois documentos muito relevantes para o amadurecimento da discussão das Paisagens Culturais no contexto urbano latino-americano: o dossiê de candidatura à Paisagem Cultural de Buenos Aires e do Rio de Janeiro. Com essa análise comparativa de dois sítios urbanos, buscamos entender quais as características usadas como justificativa para reivindicar o título nesta categoria, como as duas cidades lidaram com a questão da preservação do patrimônio urbano e quais os possíveis motivos para a recusa ou concessão do reconhecimento dado pelo órgão internacional em ambos os casos. Assim, pudemos esclarecer, ao final da pesquisa, os potenciais e limitações apresentados por essa (não tão) nova categoria de preservação que se propõe, desde o início, a fornecer uma visão mais ampla e integrada de preservação dos sítios históricos em grande escala na tentativa de elencar as principais contribuições que essa categoria do Patrimônio Mundial poderia adicionar às discussões da preservação de áreas urbanas complexas e dinâmicas. / Our goal is to investigate the process of formation of the concept of Cultural Landscape and its applicability as a preservation tool and management of urban heritage in the context of growth and transformation of Latin American cities. Given the scope of the concept of cultural landscape, the study begins with a first effort to trace a historical overview of the emergence of the issue in international discussion of nuclei and their development and application by national organ preservation. Once clarified the process of historical and conceptual training, we analyze the overall picture of the 88 Cultural Landscapes appearing today in the World Heritage list in an attempt to understand, through the set of features, which the criteria taken into account in practice to grant the title to the sites pleiteam international recognition of this category of assets. With the big picture in mind, we start from the overall study for the site specific, examining two very relevant documents to the maturation of the discussion of Cultural Landscapes in the Latin American urban context: the application package to the Cultural Landscape of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. With this comparative analysis of two urban sites, we seek to understand what features used as justification for a title in this category, as the two cities have dealt with the issue of preservation of urban heritage and what the possible reasons for the denial or grant of recognition given by international organization in both cases. Thus, we could clarify, at the end of the research, the potential and limitations presented by this (not so) new category of preservation that is proposed from the outset, to provide a broader and more integrated view of preservation of historical sites on a large scale in attempt to list the main contributions that the World Heritage category could add to the discussions of preservation of complex and dynamic urban areas.

Abstract: New Orleans, Baltimore, and Charlottesville are reevaluating the presence of Confederate statues in their built environment. Known as the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond’s cultural landscape is visible through the connection of two historical spaces, Monument Avenue and Shockoe Bottom. Both serve as a powerful case study for how the commemorative narrative of these spaces is contested today and how barriers that exist influence urban planning processes and outcomes.

<p>The aim of this work is to give an example of how archaeoacoustics can broaden our understanding of archaeological remains and to further contribute to the almost non-existing research of ringing stones. With a theoretical discussion about sound from three different perspectives and by means of using different kinds of analysis, this essay will show that there are unknown relations between the three known ölandic ringing stones and the cultural landscape of Öland. Possible patterns in the placement of the stones and the possibility of the sound in this soundscape will be investigated. The essay will also suggest a resonant stone typology and discuss the necessity of one. Finally, the intention is also to shed new light upon the discussion on what the uses of the ringing stones might have been.</p>

Second home use or cottaging is an increasingly desirable practice across Canada. In Manitoba, cottaging sub-divisions are generally situated along lakes and rivers in the province, many of which are situated on Crown land or in provincial parks. This study explored what is meaningful about cottaging to bring about a better understanding of the importance of cottaging as a culturally meaningful social practice. The objectives of the research were to identify what makes Flanders Lake and surrounding area of Nopiming Provincial Park a meaningful place for cottagers; determine if there are shared meanings among cottagers; and consider the implications of the cultural landscape of cottagers for natural resource management. The case study research considered the sense of place that is derived from cottagers’ experiences and what specifically contributes to the significance of cottage culture in the cottaging sub-division of Flanders Lake, Manitoba. A qualitative, interpretive research design was used for data collection. Photo-elicitation also known as resident employed photography was used, whereby cottagers were asked to photograph things, places or people that represented meaningful aspects about cottaging and the surrounding area. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with individual participants to validate and triangulate perspectives. Using NVivo 7 qualitative software to manage data and elicit themes, a cultural landscape framework of cottagers was developed. Cottagers cited recreational activities, connections with people, interactions with nature and the tonic-like effects of cottaging experiences, as the most meaningful aspects of cottaging. The study showed that it is possible to determine the most meaningful aspects of a place, and that many of those attributes are shared between community members. However, dissecting those meanings into constituent parts of a collective body of shared, interrelated and sometimes dependent meanings is complex, and not always possible. Further study on the cultural landscape of additional cottaging communities and of other area stakeholders is recommended given the increasing desirability and interest in cottaging, and potential for negotiating place meanings in multiple land use areas. / October 2008