Taskscape

The term taskscape is often credited to social anthropologist Tim Ingold. As Ingold has described the term: "just as the landscape is an array of related features, so – by analogy – the taskscape is an array of related activities." Taskscape, then is a socially constructed space of human activity, understood as having spatial boundaries and delimitations for the purposes of analysis. Of key importance, is that "taskscape" as well as "landscape", is to be considered as perpetually in process rather than in a static or otherwise immutable state.

Tim Ingold coined the term in his 1993 article [Ingold, Tim. (1993) "The Temporality of the Landscape", "World Archaeology", 25(2): pp. 24-174] defining the spatial and temporal dimensions of the landscape in human life. He considers it as a methodological structure and analyses the temporality of the landscape in Pieter Bruegel's famous painting, The Harvesters.

References

See also

* Landscape
* Seascape

External links

* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=6 Ingold's site at the University of Aberdeen, includes full bibliography]