Rocky Mountain Research Station

Title: Appendix III. Perspectives on culture, tradition, vernacular knowledge, and culture change to understand landscape as a cultural process

Author: Anschuetz, Kurt F.

Date: 2007

Source: In: Anschuetz, Kurt F.; Merlan, Thomas. More than a scenic mountain landscape: Valles Caldera National Preserve land use history. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-196. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 263-277.

Station ID: GTR-RMRS-196

Description: The underlying premise of this discussion is that people contribute to conditions that warrant the restructuring and reorganization of their interactions with their physical settings, with other members of their communities, and with residents of other communities (see Anschuetz 1998b:31-82). People revise their existing tactics and strategies, or adopt altogether new policies, for earning their living. As they accommodate changes in their natural, economic, social, political, and ideational environments at one point in time, they invariably instigate change (Minnis 1985:19; Waddington 1974:35; see also Watts 1988). Thus, culture, and all of its constituents, including landscape, is a dynamic, living process.

Keywords: Valles Caldera National Preserve, VCNP, land use, culture, landscape

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Anschuetz, Kurt F.  2007.  Appendix III. Perspectives on culture, tradition, vernacular knowledge, and culture change to understand landscape as a cultural process.   In: Anschuetz, Kurt F.; Merlan, Thomas. More than a scenic mountain landscape: Valles Caldera National Preserve land use history. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-196. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 263-277..