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In dealing with landscape anthropology at the theoretical and methodical levels, broad fields of communication (intercultural) are opened up. Not only can individual recollection and collective memory be observed in specific places, but also cultural structures whose interpretation is spatiotemporally fixed can be investigated. We perceive the process “culture” as a smooth historical continuum because recollections are an important part of it. Thus, our memory is the “most important sense organ” (Degen & Huber 1992: 58, my translation), because it fills the world which we perceive with meaning. Even so, science cannot deliver any valid theory of memory but only speculate on its mode of operation: “If a constellation of neurons were activated it would stimulate further constellations which could activate still more constellations” (Degen & Huber 1992: 58, my translation).
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Werle, K. (2014). Emotional Landscapes: The Construction of Reality in Conflict. In: Landscape of Peace. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05832-6_26
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