Apatani Cultural Landscape has been enlisted in tentative list of WHS, but what exactly is mean by Apatani Cultural landscape? Some of us including me are confused with the phrase Cultural Landscape. Let us see the following, that may help us remove our doubts. A cultural landscape, as defined by the World Heritage Committee, is the cultural properties that represent the combined works of nature and of man. The World Heritage Committee identifies three categories of cultural landscape, ranging from (i) those landscapes most deliberately shaped by people, through (ii) full range of combined works, to (iii) those least evidently shaped by people (yet highly valued). The three categories extracted from the Committees Operational Guidelines, are as follows: 1. a landscape designed and created intentionally by man 2. an organically evolved landscape which may be a relict (or fossil) landscape or a continuing landscape 3. an associative cultural landscape which may be valued because of the religious, artistic or cultural associations of the natural element “The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, and the cultural landscape is the result Cultural landscapes is an alternative for heritage listing properties that were neither purely natural nor purely cultural in form (i.e. mixed heritage). Some of our friends argue that culture includes religion but under the above context it is not. It is purely my personal view. Apatani Cultural landscape means interaction of nature and human activities resulting the present status of landscape, which has time tested and sustained through out its journey from time immemorial to present stage irrespective of external force of agency.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:58:35 +0000
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