New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-Being: A Critical Review

Taçon, Paul S.C.; Baker, Sarah

doi:10.3390/heritage2020084

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“…Here, continuity was derived from the connections to heritage as well as nature that participants felt through their embodied interactions with the industrial relics scattered in their local landscape albeit for different purposes than their original functionsas well as the retelling of their stories. Following the assertions of Taçon & Baker (2019), cultural heritage for our participants is 'an essential part of who and what we are, where we have come from and where we are going' (p.1310) and played a crucial part in shaping their emplaced sense of wellbeing by re-storying the relationship between culture and nature in more harmonious ways (see also Poe et al, 2016;Brook, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Valuing Nature for Wellbeing: Narratives of Socio-ecological Change in Dynamic Intertidal Landscapes

Roberts¹,

Thomas²,

Pidgeon³

et al. 2021

Environmental Values

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Contributing to the cultural ecosystem services literature, this paper draws on the in-depth place narratives of two coastal case-study sites in Wales (UK) to explore how people experience and understand landscape change in relation to their sense of place, and what this means for their wellbeing. Our place narratives reveal that participants understand coastal/intertidal landscapes as complex socio-ecological systems filled with competing legitimate claims that are difficult to manage. Such insights suggest that a focus on diachronic integrity (Holland and O’Neill 1996) within place narratives might offer a route to more socially and culturally acceptable environmental management strategies.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Valuing Nature for Wellbeing: Narratives of Socio-ecological Change in Dynamic Intertidal Landscapes

Roberts¹,

Thomas²,

Pidgeon³

et al. 2021

Environmental Values

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“…However, the importance of rock art for indigenous people world-wide should not be ignored; it constitutes an essential part of their cultural identity and practices, as well as their well-being (e.g. Brady & Taçon 2016; Keyser et al 2006; Taçon 2019; Taçon & Baker 2019). Among the Samburu, both Senior and Junior Elders as well as contemporary lmurran claim to have created rock art, and there is nothing to suggest that this cultural practice will come to an end soon.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘I Have Done Hundreds of Rock Paintings’: On the Ongoing Rock Art Tradition among Samburu, Northern Kenya

Goldhahn¹,

Labarakwe²,

Skoglund³

et al. 2020

CAJ

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In this paper, we discuss observations from fieldwork in northern Kenya which revealed solid evidence for a vital ongoing rock art tradition among warriors of Samburu—lmurran. They make rock art during their lives as warriors, typically between the ages of 15 and 30, when they live away from their villages, herding cattle and thus representing a specific ‘community of practice’. Our findings reveal that Samburu rock art is made predominantly as a leisure occupation, while camping in shelters, as part of activities also involving the preparation of food. Typical images include domestic animals, humans (both men and women) and occasionally wild animals such as elephants and rhinos. Each age-set and new generation of lmurran is inspired by previous artwork, but they also change the tradition slightly by adding new elements, such as the recent tradition of writing letters and names close to the images. We conclude that even though rock art as such is not part of any ritual or ceremonial setting, it plays an important role as an inter-generational visual culture that transfers a common ongoing cultural engendered warrior identity through time.

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“…Likewise, indigenous societies emphasize a strong relationship between cultural/group identity and places, landscapes, and geographic landmarks (Basso 1996;Bloch L., 2019;Darmayanti 2016;Hays-Gilpin 2019;Helskog 1999;Montello and Moyes 2012). In many indigenous societies, actively connecting with the cosmos, environment, and places is considered necessary for the group's well-being and successful adaptation (Kearney, Bradley, and Brady 2019;Taçon 2019;Taçon and Baker 2019). For example, the Tucano from the Amazon region of Colombia considers the hills as the home of the 'Master of Animals.'…”

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Hypoxia in Paleolithic decorated caves: the use of artificial light in deep caves reduces oxygen concentration and induces altered states of consciousness

Kedar

Kedar²,

Barkai

2021

Time and Mind

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In this paper, we present a novel hypothesis as to what led humans in the Upper Paleolithic to penetrate and decorate deep, dark caves. Many of the depictions in these caves are located in halls or narrow passages deep in the interior, navigable only with artificial light. We simulated the effect of torches on oxygen concentrations in structures similar to Paleolithic decorated caves and showed that the oxygen quickly decreased to levels known to induce a state of hypoxia. Hypoxia increases the release of dopamine in the brain, resulting in hallucinations and out-of-body experiences. We discuss the significance of caves in indigenous world views and contend that entering these deep, dark environments was a conscious choice, motivated by an understanding of the transformative nature of an underground, oxygen-depleted space. The cave environment was conceived as both a liminal space and an ontological arena, allowing early humans to maintain their connectedness with the cosmos. It was not the decoration that rendered the caves significant; rather, the significance of the chosen caves was the reason for their decoration.

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New and Emerging Challenges to Heritage and Well-Being: A Critical Review

Cited by 50 publications

References 56 publications

Valuing Nature for Wellbeing: Narratives of Socio-ecological Change in Dynamic Intertidal Landscapes

Valuing Nature for Wellbeing: Narratives of Socio-ecological Change in Dynamic Intertidal Landscapes

‘I Have Done Hundreds of Rock Paintings’: On the Ongoing Rock Art Tradition among Samburu, Northern Kenya

Hypoxia in Paleolithic decorated caves: the use of artificial light in deep caves reduces oxygen concentration and induces altered states of consciousness

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