Saturday, June 15, 2013

CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN CONFLICT

Photo (Dis)Credit: "My Rock Cairn" by GuthrieColin
"CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN CONFLICT: ADDRESSING THE INTERESTS AND LANDSCAPE PERCPETIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS, THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AND THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IN NATIONAL PARKS" By Emily Anne Eide

Field Methods:
    The fieldwork for this project took place over a period of three weeks, July 11 to August 1, 2010, during which eight previously recorded prayer and fasting sites were surveyed and subject to condition assessments…Upon arriving at each site, the record site form of each individual site was compared directly to the current state of the site. When possible, the contexts of the record photos were used to further determine that the correct area for the site had been located. In some cases, it was possible to identify rocks in the record photos that were still present at the site. Once the team was confident that the correct area for the site was found and UTM coordinate information documented, any relevant structures were measured and photographed. When photographing a site, the team attempted to use the same camera placement as used in the record photos as noted earlier. Sketches of the site features and any other associated artifacts or graffiti were also drawn…
   Causes of impact include both human and natural factors ranging from bioturbation to deliberate site destruction. The most common categories of impact to the surveyed sites included natural weathering processes, recent graffiti, and the rearranging of site features into cairns or windbreaks…
   The most common forms of human impact were graffiti, the rearrangement of rock structures, noise pollution, and the placement of summit registers…(pages 30-33)”

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