Cultural regions and their uses : the interpretation of landscape and identity.

Abstract

regional culture is the back drop for this essay.In looking at Heimat, as a local belonging and culture there is the sense that the spatial metaphor of home territory implies 'a bounded medium of some kind which provides a sense of security and belonging' (Boa and Palfreyman 2000, page 23).So if this is where our analysis may take us, let us start with some careful thinking about the concept of the 'cultural region' and its uses. A Cartographic ImaginaryIn this section I want to raise some issues concerned with thinking of cultures as not only varying across the face of the world, but occupying territory.The sense of the human mosaic is one specific way of imagining cultures -stressing we might say occupation and control of territory through time.We could alternately think of cultures as webs of flows and entanglements.In James Clifford's (1997) apt phrase, not so much about cultures setting down roots and developing in a place through time but routes whereby connections between places, flows of ideas and practices serve to drive development.So here I want to ask how a vision of cultures as distributed as mappable, spatial extensive and more or less exclusive occupants of different scales of territories was constructed through a variety of academic and popular practices.

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