Creation Narratives Linking Ancient Places and Present Communities
by
Jessica Joyce Christie, Merideth Paxton, Polly Schaafsma
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Landscape is a powerful factor in the operation of memory because of the associations narrators make between the local landscape and the events of the stories they tell. Ancestors and mythological events often become fixed in a specific landscape and act as timeless reference points.
In conventional...