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- Title
Contours of the Land: Place-as-Rhetoric and Native American Effigy Mounds.
- Authors
Schmitt, Casey R.
- Abstract
This essay presents a critical analysis of the textual, material, and experiential rhetorics of Native American effigy mounds in a modern urban landscape. It argues that in such culturally layered locations material and textual artifacts might disrupt divisions between past and present, but that more often the sites merely mark space without demanding prolonged attention and ultimately perpetuate a sense of estrangement between the viewer and the viewed object. These observations are used to promote reflexive layering of space, whereby rhetorical frames for experience encourage explicit reflection on the multiple and interrelated perspectives embedded on any given landscape.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EFFIGY mounds; RHETORIC; SPACE; PLACE (Philosophy); LANDSCAPES; NATIVE Americans
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2015, Vol 79, Issue 3, p307
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2015.1041651