NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Karen Blixen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NATAMST 90
• Professor: Diane Pearson

Document Summary

Wisdom sits in places, notes on a western apache landscape -- keith h. basso. Who: isak dinesen, martin heidegger, jean-paul sartre. How it correlates with human life and survival. Land /places are thought to have certain spirits and sacredness. Missing desire to embrace the quality of land. Modern world kissing a sense of place . Meaning: ways where people constitute their lands and connect with it. Human thought and emotion brings places into being. -heidegger. Interpret their own identities into their perception of places (self interpretation) Animate ideas and feelings of people interpreting them. Monumental places are monumental because of how humans perceive it. Man can only mean what he knows. -sarte. Things can only be interpreted to a certain extent through the interpreter"s knowledge. Each quality is so deeply incorporated in the object that it is impossible to distinguish what is felt and what is perceived. -sarte. Places are perceived through their animation -- physical features.