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The Creation of Person, the Creation of Place: Hunting Landscapes in The American Southwest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James M. Potter
James M. Potter*
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SWCA Environmental Consultants, 208 Parker Drive, Durango, CO 81303 ([email protected])
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Abstract

Because people conceptualize the land on which they live metaphorically, it is suggested that metaphor theory is an important component of landscape theory. One kind of metaphorically charged landscape is the hunting landscape, a type of gendered landscape that embodies hunting and animal metaphors related to gender categories and provides a field on which to perform and establish maleness. Two archaeological examples of hunting landscapes in the American Southwest are explored to show how hunting and its associated landscapes facilitate the creation and substantiation of the male persona through metaphorical linkages between humans and animals, hunting and warfare, and game animals and women.

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Ya que las personas conceptualizan la tierra donde viven metafóricamente, se sugiere que la teoría de la metáfora es un componente importante de la teoría del paisaje. Una clase depaisaje con carga metafórica es el paisaje de caza, un tipo de paisaje con género que personifica las metáforas de la caza y de los animales relacionados con categorías de género, que proporciona un campo en que se desarrolla y establecer lo masculino. Se analizan dos ejemplos arqueológicos de paisajes de caza en el Suroeste Americano para mostrar cómo la caza y los paisajes asociados facilitan la creación y justificación del personaje masculino por uniones metafóricas entre humanos y animales, la caza y la guerra, y los animales de caza y las mujeres.

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American Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 322 - 338
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2004

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