Obsidian was a prized tool stone heavily exploited in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem throughout the pre-contact period. Fifteen geochemically distinct sources in this area were utilized on a regular basis consistently through time. A large dataset of sourced obsidian artifacts currently exists but has rarely been applied to specific archaeological problems for Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.<p> This thesis provides a comprehensive list of obsidian sources important to the archaeology of Yellowstone and analyzes spatial and temporal trends of obsidian source selection. This study examines diagnostic tools produced by people during the Archaic period, focusing on the McKean complex (~5500-3000 BP) and Pelican Lake phase (3000-1600 BP). The potential for a cultural preference for obsidian source selection is discussed by applying landscape theory and ethnographic evidence to the examination of archaeological data.<p> A pattern of obsidian source exploitation as seen at the Osprey Beach site (representing the Cody Complex) has led to the development of a proposed annual round, typically applied to the entire pre-contact period in the Park. This large annual round, however, is determined to be unlikely and unnecessary by this author. Alternative local rounds to this model are proposed and supported by the evidence.<p> A clear preference for the Obsidian Cliff source (a National Historic Landmark) located in the northern end of the Park is shown in these results. This preference can be interpreted in both economic and cultural terms. Otherwise, no purely cultural preference for an obsidian source is supported. The exploitation of certain obsidian sources did not change significantly between the McKean and Pelican Lake cultures. However, a significantly different pattern of exploitation is seen when analyzed by geographical area. The results of this research suggest a more localized pattern of obsidian exploitation than previously thought, impacting interpretations of seasonality and travel routes in the Yellowstone area.

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Esta pesquisa busca analisar a filosofia crítica kantiana com dois objetivos básicos: identificar sua articulação com a visão de geografia promovida por Kant através do seu curso de geografia física e determinar os aspectos positivos e negativos que ela oferece para a fundamentação epistemológica do atual paradigma geográfico da paisagem. A hipótese inicial foi que a filosofia crítica poderia embasar a discussão a respeito da fundamentação epistemológica de uma teoria geográfica da paisagem. Ela encontrou que o filósofo teve um intenso relacionamento com o conhecimento geográfico do seu tempo, o qual contribuiu para a formulação de sua filosofia crítica, já que forneceu a fundamentação empírica para suas reflexões. O debate filosófico intenso que Kant provocou, todavia, não se repetiu no campo geográfico. Sua leitura geográfica da paisagem procurava relacionar os elementos no espaço, como as características dos habitantes e seus climas. Não obstante, ela era cheia de limitações devido a sua preferência por uma abordagem universalista e normativa das sociedades, como os pesquisadores fazem no campo das ciências naturais. Sua concepção histórica da sociedade não era suficiente. Esta pesquisa defende que o resultado do método de abordagem geográfica de Kant era falho em alguns aspectos. Ele ignorava o contexto histórico no qual as pessoas viviam e fornecia uma educação geográfica falha, a qual promovia certo determinismo e intolerância racial, como seu curso de geografia física e outros trabalhos indicam. O filósofo reservou um lugar para a geografia em sua arquitetônica do conhecimento, mas não procurou desenvolvê-la ao nível científico. Apesar disso, sua filosofia influenciou outros personagens que viriam a contribuir ativamente para o desenvolvimento da geografia científica e a formação do paradigma geográfico da paisagem. É importante perceber que sua filosofia crítica tem importantes reflexões sobre as características do conhecimento científico e a posição do homem na natureza. Essas questões são relevantes para auxiliar na análise epistemológica da geografia. Este trabalho demonstra ainda que a filosofia crítica kantiana pode contribuir mesmo atualmente para o desenvolvimento do paradigma geográfico da paisagem em seu campo epistemológico, não obstante as limitações do filósofo como um geógrafo (ou mesmo como um cientista social). Esta contribuição pode ser positiva (pela apropriação de alguns raciocínios por ela oferecidos) e negativa (encontrando seus erros e buscando superá-los). / This research seeks to analyze the Kantian critical philosophy with two basic aims: to identify its articulation with the view of geography Kant promoted through his course of physical geography and to determine the positive and negative aspects it offers to the epistemological foundation of the current geographical landscape paradigm. The initial hypothesis was that the critical philosophy could base the discussion about the epistemological foundation of a geographical landscape theory. It found that the philosopher had an intense relationship with the geographical knowledge of his time, which contributed to the formulation of his critical philosophy, since it provided empirical foundation for his reflections. The intense philosophical debate Kant provoked, however, did not repeat in the geographical realm. His geographical reading of landscape sought to relate elements on the space like the characteristics of the inhabitants and their climates. Nevertheless, it was also full of limitations due to his preference for a Universalist and normative approach of societies, as researchers do in the field of natural sciences. His historical conception of society was not enough. This research defends that the result of Kant´s geographical method of approach was defective in some aspects. It ignored the historical context that people lived and provided a flawed geographical education, which promoted even certain determinism and racial intolerance, as his course of physical geography and other work sindicate. The philosopher reserved a place for geography in his architectonic of knowledge, but did not seek to develop it to the scientific level. Nonetheless, his philosophy influenced other characters that would actively contribute to the development of scientific geography and with the formation of the geographical landscape paradigm. It is important to realize that his critical philosophy has important reflections about the characteristics of the scientific knowledge and the position of man in nature. These issues are relevant to assist in the epistemological analysis of geography. This work still demonstrates that the Kantian critical philosophy can contribute even today to the development of the geographical landscape paradigm in its epistemological field, despite the limitations of the philosopher as a geographer (or even as a social scientist). This contribution can be positive (by the appropriation of some reasoningsit offers), and negative (finding its mistakes and searching to overcomethem).

Esta pesquisa busca analisar a filosofia crítica kantiana com dois objetivos básicos: identificar sua articulação com a visão de geografia promovida por Kant através do seu curso de geografia física e determinar os aspectos positivos e negativos que ela oferece para a fundamentação epistemológica do atual paradigma geográfico da paisagem. A hipótese inicial foi que a filosofia crítica poderia embasar a discussão a respeito da fundamentação epistemológica de uma teoria geográfica da paisagem. Ela encontrou que o filósofo teve um intenso relacionamento com o conhecimento geográfico do seu tempo, o qual contribuiu para a formulação de sua filosofia crítica, já que forneceu a fundamentação empírica para suas reflexões. O debate filosófico intenso que Kant provocou, todavia, não se repetiu no campo geográfico. Sua leitura geográfica da paisagem procurava relacionar os elementos no espaço, como as características dos habitantes e seus climas. Não obstante, ela era cheia de limitações devido a sua preferência por uma abordagem universalista e normativa das sociedades, como os pesquisadores fazem no campo das ciências naturais. Sua concepção histórica da sociedade não era suficiente. Esta pesquisa defende que o resultado do método de abordagem geográfica de Kant era falho em alguns aspectos. Ele ignorava o contexto histórico no qual as pessoas viviam e fornecia uma educação geográfica falha, a qual promovia certo determinismo e intolerância racial, como seu curso de geografia física e outros trabalhos indicam. O filósofo reservou um lugar para a geografia em sua arquitetônica do conhecimento, mas não procurou desenvolvê-la ao nível científico. Apesar disso, sua filosofia influenciou outros personagens que viriam a contribuir ativamente para o desenvolvimento da geografia científica e a formação do paradigma geográfico da paisagem. É importante perceber que sua filosofia crítica tem importantes reflexões sobre as características do conhecimento científico e a posição do homem na natureza. Essas questões são relevantes para auxiliar na análise epistemológica da geografia. Este trabalho demonstra ainda que a filosofia crítica kantiana pode contribuir mesmo atualmente para o desenvolvimento do paradigma geográfico da paisagem em seu campo epistemológico, não obstante as limitações do filósofo como um geógrafo (ou mesmo como um cientista social). Esta contribuição pode ser positiva (pela apropriação de alguns raciocínios por ela oferecidos) e negativa (encontrando seus erros e buscando superá-los). / This research seeks to analyze the Kantian critical philosophy with two basic aims: to identify its articulation with the view of geography Kant promoted through his course of physical geography and to determine the positive and negative aspects it offers to the epistemological foundation of the current geographical landscape paradigm. The initial hypothesis was that the critical philosophy could base the discussion about the epistemological foundation of a geographical landscape theory. It found that the philosopher had an intense relationship with the geographical knowledge of his time, which contributed to the formulation of his critical philosophy, since it provided empirical foundation for his reflections. The intense philosophical debate Kant provoked, however, did not repeat in the geographical realm. His geographical reading of landscape sought to relate elements on the space like the characteristics of the inhabitants and their climates. Nevertheless, it was also full of limitations due to his preference for a Universalist and normative approach of societies, as researchers do in the field of natural sciences. His historical conception of society was not enough. This research defends that the result of Kant´s geographical method of approach was defective in some aspects. It ignored the historical context that people lived and provided a flawed geographical education, which promoted even certain determinism and racial intolerance, as his course of physical geography and other work sindicate. The philosopher reserved a place for geography in his architectonic of knowledge, but did not seek to develop it to the scientific level. Nonetheless, his philosophy influenced other characters that would actively contribute to the development of scientific geography and with the formation of the geographical landscape paradigm. It is important to realize that his critical philosophy has important reflections about the characteristics of the scientific knowledge and the position of man in nature. These issues are relevant to assist in the epistemological analysis of geography. This work still demonstrates that the Kantian critical philosophy can contribute even today to the development of the geographical landscape paradigm in its epistemological field, despite the limitations of the philosopher as a geographer (or even as a social scientist). This contribution can be positive (by the appropriation of some reasoningsit offers), and negative (finding its mistakes and searching to overcomethem).

Au Japon, les années 1960 ouvrent une période de contestation politique et artistique. Dans un contexte de déclin des studios traditionnels, les films mettant l’accent sur des faits divers violents se développent en parallèle du Pinku Eiga, genre érotique. Des cinéastes comme Kôji Wakamatsu et Masao Adachi émergent, et avec eux des films où se mêlent nudité et velléités révolutionnaires, témoignant tant d’une interrogation proprement érotique des corps que d’une remise en question virulente de la société contemporaine. Le crime, la déviation deviennent autant de canaux de contestation, tandis que l’érotisme déploie un contre-récit des relations humaines. En écho à ce questionnement, les films de la fûkeiron, la « théorie du paysage », interrogent le devenir des individus confrontés aux paysages du monde moderne. Aux corps surreprésentés du pink font face des corps absents, évacués du visible comme de l’Histoire officielle. Criminels, révolutionnaires ou nymphomanes, autant de vies dénudées qui échappent aux catégories traditionnelles et dont les cinéastes donnent à voir le processus d’émancipation, jusqu’à l’autodestruction parfois. Cet assujettissement visuel et narratif du corps à une organisation qui le dépasse interroge la possibilité d’une énonciation radicalement nouvelle. Dans l’intervalle qui sépare les corps figurants des corps capables d’énonciation, les vies dénudées des vies qualifiées prise dans des logiques utilitaristes, se dessine une dialectique qui interroge la chair comme puissance fondamentale de l’image, seule à même de faire se fissurer les paysages trop lisses de la modernité. / In Japan, the 1960s open an era of political and artistic protests. The decline of traditional film studios is followed by the development of violent genre movies and pinku eiga (erotic films). New filmmakers like Kôji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi emerge, shooting films in which nudity echoes a constant thirst for revolution, both questioning the erotic nature of bodies and criticizing the contemporary society. Crime and deviation become a new way of protesting, while eroticism allows for a counter-narrative of human relationships. Echoing this interrogation, films of the fûkeiron, the “landscape theory”, address the question of the future of individuals confronted with the landscapes of the modern world. Overexposed bodies from pink cinema are now confronted with bodies that are absent, expelled from both the visible world and the official history. Criminals, revolutionaries, nymphomaniacs, all those bare lives elude the traditional classification and show a new way toward emancipation, sometimes leading to their self-destruction. This visual and narrative subjugation of the body under an organization that exceeds him questions the possibility of a radically new narrative. In the interval that separates figuration bodies from bodies capable of their own narrative, bare lives from qualified lives that are the byproduct of a rationalized system, a dialectic emerges that question flesh as a fundamental potential of images, a potential that might be the only one capable of breaking apart the way too smooth landscapes of modernity.

This project examines the landscape of the farming community of Beagle, Oregon prior to and during the Second World War and the effect on it due to the construction of Camp White, a World War II training facility. The Beagle landscape is examined through the prism of current theory that suggests that landscapes are not discrete units of analysis but are, instead, symbiotic relationships between land and people. Utilizing archives, contemporary newspaper accounts, photographs, oral histories, and archaeological investigation, the history of the construction of Beagle landscape, the effects of the construction of Camp White, the subsequent removal of Beagle residents, and postwar renewal are examined. The project concludes that the Beagle landscape was, and is, a holistic entity that, though dramatically changed in 1942, continues to exist and inform the lives of surviving original residents as well as the history of the Beagle area. / Graduation date: 2007

Visual records of place remain to a large degree inadequate when attempting to make visible the ephemeral states of consciousness that underlie the damage wrought by brutal regimes, let alone make visible the extraordinary histories and power structures encoded in images and views. This practice-led dissertation examines an emerging critical landscape genre in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia, and its relationship to specific themes such as identity, belonging, trauma and memory. The landscape genre was traditionally considered inadequate to use in expressions of resistance under apartheid, particularly in the socially conscious and reformist discourse of South African documentary photography. I argue that, as a result of historical and cultural shifts after the demise of apartheid in 1994, a shift in aesthetic and subject matter has occurred, one that has led to a more rigorous and interventionist engagement with the landscape genre. I demonstrate how, after 1994, photographers of the long-established documentary tradition, which was meant to record 'what is there' in a sharp, clear, legible and impartial manner, would continue to draw on devices of the documentary aesthetic, but in a more idiosyncratic way. I show how these post-apartheid, documentary landscapes both disrupt and complicate the conventional expectations involved in converting visual fields into knowledge. I further investigate, through my own experimental documentary work, the ideologically fraught aspects of landscape representation with their links to Calvinist and German Romantic aesthetics. I appropriate and disrupt certain tropes still prevalent in popular landscape depictions. I do this in an effort to reveal the complex and troubled relationship that these traditions share with issues of willed historical amnesia and recognition in contemporary Namibia. Through my practice and the examination of other photographers' and artists' work, this project aims to further a self-reflective and critical approach to the genre of landscape and issues of identity in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia.