New Course -- Fall 2009
GEOG 493/693: Landscape and Language
Instructor: Gary Holton
A trans-disciplinary perspective on the complex inter-relationships between landscape and language. Landscape categories such as MOUNTAIN and RIVER are not universal semantic primitives but are in fact realized differently in different languages (and cultures). In juxtaposing the terms landscape and language this course will contribute to the forging of a new ethnoscience which seeks to understand the ways in which human experience of landscape shapes cognition, and vice versa.
This course will be useful to a broad range of disciplines, particularly those seeking to understand global change and related geographic issues – whether as scientists, policy makers, educators, and citizens.
For more information contact Gary Holton at (907) 474-6585 or gmholton@alaska.edu
Download syllabus [pdf] (updated 2009-10-05)
Link to ERes Course Page
Updated Reading List (updated 2009-10-05)
- Tues, Oct 13: Levinson chap. 3
- Thurs, Oct 15: Levinson chap. 4
Future readings available on eres.
Note: The Anthropology Colloquium on Oct 16 features a presentation on directional systems across the North Pacific Rim by Prof Michael Fortescue.
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Friday, October 16, 3:30 PM in Eielson 304
Texts
- Space in Language and Cognition by Steven Levinson
- Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas Thornton
- eRes Electronic Reserves
Brooks 421
