Contested Landscape and the Spirit of Place, the Case of Olive Trees and Urban Neighborhood in Israel

Amit-Cohen, Irit (2008) Contested Landscape and the Spirit of Place, the Case of Olive Trees and Urban Neighborhood in Israel. In: 16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’, 29 sept – 4 oct 2008, Quebec, Canada. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscape are a set of human products that reflect the society needs thoughts and memories. It represents and symbolizes the relationships of power and controls - out of which it has emerged - and the human processes that have transformed and continue to transform them. These transformations create new cultural landscapes that often hide the processes that have made them – political, social, cultural, ideological and economic. The purpose of this lecture is to analyze a contested geographical environment, where two cultures compete over land and its cultural heritage and therefore each of them has its own interpretations: the Jewish Zionist culture and the Arab Moslem culture. The aim is to define the landscape – its spirit and its representation - that emerges from these competitions and disputes; to characterize it; to analyze its symbols and its uses – mainly for the purpose of formation and construction of identities.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Authors:	Authors Email Amit-Cohen, Irit UNSPECIFIED
Languages:	English
Keywords:	contested landscape; cultural landscape; icon; symbol; interpretation; spirit of place; intangible heritage
Subjects:	L.PRESENTATION AND TRANSMISSION OF HERITAGE > 02. Interpretation O.INTANGIBLE HERITAGE > 01. Generalities H.HERITAGE TYPOLOGIES > 06. Cultural landscapes
Name of monument, town, site, museum:	Manshiya, Israel
ICOMOS Special Collection:	Scientific Symposium (ICOMOS General Assemblies)
ICOMOS Special Collection Volume:	2008, 16th
Depositing User:	Jose Garcia
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2010 11:03
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2011 19:11
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