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Landscape | Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

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When we think about landscape, we tend to think of natural scenery, empty of people; of a view, spread in front of our eyes; or of a backdrop, a stage for people’s movements and activities. The anthropology of landscape challenges all of these ideas. By sharing and observing local lives through ethnographic fieldwork, anthropologists have realised that landscapes matter deeply to people: they care about the landscapes they inhabit, materially shaping them and attaching meaning to them. Anthropologists have come to argue that people do not only live in landscapes but also through them: landscape is an intrinsic part of, or even actor in human social and cultural lives, constructed by them both physically and symbolically and, reciprocally, helping to make and unmake relationships and identities.

Environment Semantics Semiotics Space Identity Dwelling Memory Place Sacred/Profane Paola Filippucci University of Cambridge Initially published 1 Sep 2016 Cite as: Filippucci, Paola. (2016) 2023. “Landscape”. In The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology , edited by Felix Stein. Facsimile of the first edition in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology . Online: http://doi.org/10.29164/16landscape Abstract: When we think about landscape, we tend to think of natural scenery, empty of people; of a view, spread in front of our eyes; or of a backdrop, a stage for people’s movements and activities. T

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