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This chapter details how groups of diverse people—professionals, locals and university students—experience and learn about caves and cavescapes. The chapter affirms the value of curiosity and a wise, wide-angled perceptive attention, that is effectively as “correspondent” as it is “timeful”; and through this explores the learning of a more-than-human ethic of research practices, one based on environmental care. Over the course of the chapter, Rahman unpicks the implicit pedagogies and approaches of these diverse groups to better understand and evaluate the means and ends of making unfamiliar landscapes familiar, considering the meaning and making of heritage, beyond objects and casual finds.
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This is a much larger cave than the Villaverde cave, and has since been musealised as it is home to the only known living exemplar of a blind spider-like invertebrate (Maiorerus randoi).
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Elizabeth would like to thank the editors and Jan Masschelein for comments on drafts of this chapter. She would also like to acknowledge the support of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and supporting colleagues, especially Elizabeth Ewart, Laura Rival and Peter Mitchell. Elizabeth acknowledges the timely support of the University of Oxford’s Teaching and Development Enhancement Project award (TDEP) which made this initiative possible. All images are thanks to Marissa Gonzalez Scanlan, unless otherwise stated. Thanks are extended to all participants, locals and students, for their involvement in the project.
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Rahman, E. (2022). Familiar Matter? Cave Heritage Sites and Their Timeful Exploration with Locals and University Students in Fuerteventura, Spain. In: Smith, T.A., Pitt, H., Dunkley, R.A. (eds) Unfamiliar Landscapes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94460-5_7
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