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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41390

Type

conference item

Titre

Contested Landscape and the Spirit of Place, the Case of Olive Trees and Urban Neighborhood in Israel

Langues

English

Auteurs

Amit-Cohen, Irit

Date

2008

Pages

11 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

cultural landscapes / conflicts / spirit of place / interpretation / icons / symbolism / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Israel

Monuments et sites

Manshiya, Israel

Résumé en anglais

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscape are a set of human products that reflect the society needs thoughts and memories. It represents and symbolizes the relationships of power and controls - out of which it has emerged - and the human processes that have transformed and continue to transform them. These transformations create new cultural landscapes that often hide the processes that have made them – political, social, cultural, ideological and economic. The purpose of this lecture is to analyze a contested geographical environment, where two cultures compete over land and its cultural heritage and therefore each of them has its own interpretations: the Jewish Zionist culture and the Arab Moslem culture. The aim is to define the landscape – its spirit and its representation - that emerges from these competitions and disputes; to characterize it; to analyze its symbols and its uses – mainly for the purpose of formation and construction of identities.

Document joint

77-A3Mg-112.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)