The Meanings of "Litter" in Yosemite National Park

Author(s): John Chenoweth

Year: 2015

Summary

The concepts of "nature" and "culture" have been carefully critiqued by anthropologists over the last few decades, but they still remain in the forefront of the public debate over the environment and how best to preserve it.  The question of how modern people see the natural and cultural realms is at the heart of this issue.  This project explores the line between these ideas by analyzing the behavior of one segment of the modern public: visitors to Yosemite National Park.  Employing the "toolkit" of archaeological analysis, items left by visitors were collected from various locations in the park and cataloged.  The goal has been to understand modern conceptions of nature and culture, the interactions between them, and some of the implications of these cultural constructions for environmental action.

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The Meanings of "Litter" in Yosemite National Park. John Chenoweth. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 433738)

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Keywords

Temporal Keywords
Contemporary

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 40