Beschreibung:
This paper emphasizes the process of "placemaking", the significance of social practice in the cultural construction of landscape. Such construction is a process that results through people's interaction with the world rather than the stamping of order on to the world through the imposition of a re-existing cultural template. It is argued here that the value that places have in the Dreaming is an objectification of values gained through the engagement of places in ongoing social processes. While "place" may have distinctive qualities for the human lifeworld, it is also must be conceived as a form of material culture. Thus, place enters into Aboriginal social life in a fashion similar to other material forms mediated by social action, as a potential formulation of similarity and difference as a token of identity and exhcnage