Anthropologists have been slow to appreciate the potential of landscape studies. They have tended to think of landscape either in terms of ‘landform’—something already in place—or ‘land-use’, whereby something is...

Landscape in conventional usage is a spatial concept, denoting an area of land whose coherence sets it apart from surrounding territory. Its medieval origins as a legal term in Germanic language relate to the collective ownership and use of an area...

Finally, time has become a matter of theoretical interest for social anthropologists not only as a matter to be studied in its cultural representations, but also as a methodological issue in the practice of anthropological research and in the writing...

A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity...