ON CALLING PLACE: Language, naming and the understanding of landscape character attributes of cultural places in the Asia-Pacific region

Abstract

‘On calling place’ investigates place identity and the translation of cultural landscape concepts conveyed through the language of place image, story and association. Focusing on central Australian Aboriginal and Indigenous Korean linguistic traditions for naming places, the co-existence of place names generated from historic, spiritual and contemporary situations, ‘ground’ sites through acknowledging the multi-layered identity and occupation of places. An emerging recognition of place naming as symptomatic of an altered regard for landscape dynamics is writ large in recorded mappings and narratives of journeys made through the central Australian inland and through contemporary Korean island..