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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank Noel Castree for making some useful additions to this
chapter.
NOTES
1. Within physical geography, that way of seeing space as container for objects whose
relations with each other are governed by universal laws of nature has become the
dominant one, though of late there has also been some interest among physical geogra-
phers in uniqueness of place and the merits of a more ideographic understanding of the
earth sciences as historical (even hermeneutic) sciences concerned with the unique and
historically contingent evolution of particular landforms that perhaps harks back to your
fi rst landscape tradition (e.g., Baker and Twidale, 1991; Frodeman, 1995; Beven,
2000).
2. Merriam-Webster (2000) gives the following etymology for landscape: 'Dutch
landsc-
hap
, from Middle Dutch
landscap
region, tract of land (akin to Old English
landscipe
region, Old High German
lantscaf
, Old Norse
landskapr
), from land
-scap -ship; akin
to Old High German
lant
land and to Old High German -
scap
-ship - more at LAND,
-SHIP.'
3. The word
habitus
derives from a Latin word meaning 'condition, appearance, attire,
character, disposition, habit,' (Merriam-Webster, habit), and it thus belongs to a constel-
lation of words like character that are related to custom (habit) as well to morality (moral
habitus). The concept of 'habitus' as an expression of social practice is particularly identi-
fi ed with the French anthropologist/sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1977).
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