Landscape and Textual Presentation of Culture
https://doi.org/10.18384/2712-7621-2023-2-182-199
Abstract
Aim. We analyze the conceptual cultural anthropology of the landscape.
Methodology. Use is made of theoretical and geographical morphology of the cultural landscape, semiotic culturology of Yu. M. Lotman, and concepts of glossematics. Landscape is interpreted in three ways as a component, a projective test and a model of cultural space and culture as such.
Results. The existence of culture in the landscape, the landscape status of culture and the cultural status of the landscape are considered. The morphology of the cultural landscape is interpreted both as the morphology of cultural space and as its model. The methodological metaphor “reading the landscape” is developed.
Research implication. The theoretical significance lies in the final conclusion of the work: the dangers of culture fragmentation consist in the gap between the layers of culture rather than in semiotic “troubles” trivial for culture, local gaps and lacunae, loss of even essential components, difficulties in translating components and a multitude of local loci of semantic chaos due to untranslatability, mutual annihilation of meanings at borders, and inappropriate flows.
Supporting agencies: The work was performed within the framework of the State Task of the Federal State Budgetary Institution of the IG RAS “Assessment of Physical, Geographical, Hydrological and Biotic Changes in the Environment and Their Consequences for Creating the Foundations of Sustainable Environmental Management” FMGE-2019-0007-AAAA-A19-119021990093-8.
About the Author
V. Kagansky
Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir L. Kagansky – Cand. Sci. (Geography), Senior Researcher, Department of Physical
Geography and Environmental Management,
Staromonetniy per. 29-4, Moscow 119017
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