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Geopiety and landscape perceptions at Mounds State Park, Anderson, Indiana

This study provides an examination of landscape perceptions, specifically geopiety or sacred landscape perceptions, at Mounds State Park. Through archival analysis I traced 2000 years of landscape perceptions at the park and found that geopiety has been an underlying influence in shaping perceptions. I further examine contemporary perceptions at Mounds state Park through participant observation and ethnographic interviewing and have determined that geopiety continues at the park in the form of nature-centered, historical/cultural and recreational perceptions. Finally, I examined the influence of modernity on geopiety and have determined that the level of geopiety is determined by the degree an individual is influenced by modernity. Modernity exists in varying degrees from traditional to progressive with the majority of individuals couched within the “inbetweeness” of modernity. / Department of Geography

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/187471
Date January 2003
CreatorsPerry, Barbara
ContributorsHawkins, Michael J.
Source SetsBall State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
Formatix, 181 leaves : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm.
SourceVirtual Press
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