Toponymy & Environmental Identity

• Main Author: Parker Jonathan
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 宮崎国際大学 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; Cape Horn; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://meilib.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=498; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1106/00000480/; https://meilib.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=498&item_no=1&attribute_id=22&file_no=1

This article is the result of a study undertaken to compare indigenous toponyms in southern Chile (where I visited the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve with the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program) to toponyms in Texas (where I completed my dissertation research). Toponyms offer a means of understanding the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Toponymy as an expression of a cultural relationship to the environment has received little attention in the environmental philosophy literature, and it is the purpose of this article to help fill that void.1 Due to the threats facing linguistic and cultural diversity, this paper also addresses the value of such diversity and offers some arguments for its preservation.