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Natural resource extraction projects such as dams and mines entail alteration to or destruction of natural and cultural landscapes. Heritage mitigation efforts often propose compensating for or salvaging material heritage, largely because this can be inventoried and evaluated alongside economic and environmental resources. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is often overlooked, despite the fact that tangibles, intangibles, and economic resources together constitute the impacted landscape. Writing from the perspective of western Lesotho s Metolong Dam, we view landscape as an embodiment of intangible heritage to explore what landscape loss consequent on dam-building entails. We contend that this process involves dissociating intangibles from their material correlates, and transforming landscape experiences by dissolving and re-constituting boundaries and resources in line with developer perspectives. We suggest that considering interdisciplinary approaches to landscape theorisation and ICH achieves a more nuanced view of how landscape loss and ICH interrelate, and thus improves mitigatory practice.

Año de publicación
2014
Revista académica
Journal of Social Archaeology
Volumen
14
Número
2
Número de páginas
196-223
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Fecha de publicación
jun
Idioma de edición
English
Numero ISSN
14696053 (ISSN)
URL
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84901423398&doi=10.1177%2f1469605314522897&partnerID=40&md5=47795da6db3d464cb2c932fd7e5fe25c
DOI
10.1177/1469605314522897
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