What We Care About When We Care About Landscape: Toponyms, Sheep, and Ruins in Northeastern Iceland
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https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520105Keywords:
landscape, care for landscape, sheep farming, ruins, abandoned places, toponyms, IcelandAbstract
The article approaches the questions of care for the landscape through three intertwined ethnographic perspectives, related through the fact that they are closely bound with sheep farming: (micro)toponyms or landscape nomenclature, the preservation of the desired appearance of the landscape, and the abandoned elements of the landscape and ruins in the northeast of Iceland. The contribution demonstrates that landscape preservation encompasses both communicative or linguistic aspects, as well as practices and perceptions – thus including the areas of linguistic, material, perceptual, and other dimensions of the landscape.
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