Ulm, Sean, O'Brien, Susan, Trigger, David, and Williams, Michael (2010) Berajondo and Mill Point: remembering place and landscape. Queensland Historical Atlas, 1.

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Abstract

[Extract} 'Places' are central to the ways in which people construct their understandings of the world. A 'sense of place' is rooted in feelings of belonging, attachment, connection and ownership, interlinked with memories, experiences, emotions, histories and identities.

The idea of 'place' itself is elusive, being variously thought of as a named location, site of local activity, foundation for social and cultural knowledge and meaning, or as a particularly memorable sensory experience. Places can be transformed over time according to broad cultural dispositions as well as economic and political drivers. Places, then, are multidimensional, with discrete localities, landscapes and sensescapes overlapping in our constructions of locations. A 'sense of place' is particularistic; it is both a personal and collective social construction framed through engagement with a particular place, its landscape and material properties, both tangible (eg buildings) or intangible (eg natural features of environment). However, while places are always experienced locally, those constructions are embedded in our worldviews; that is, how we perceive and engage with new places and landscapes is informed by our previous encounters in other places and times.

Item ID:	15726
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1838-708X
Keywords:	cemetery, timber, anthropology, cultural heritage, Indigenous
Related URLs:	http://www.qhatlas.com.au/
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2011 07:02
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