TY - JOUR AU - Kato, Kumi PY - 2009/12/09 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Soundscape, cultural landscape and connectivity JF - Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies JA - Sites VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.11157/sites-vol6iss2id123 UR - https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/article/view/123 SP - 80-91 AB - “Soundscape” is an environment of sound or sonic environment that focuses on the way a sound is perceived and understood by the individual or a society. With the special and temporal qualities of the sound, the concept presents a holistic way of knowing a place, and an attention to a sound distinct to a certain place, especially those distinct to certain human-nature interaction, allows new ways of sensing a place and connectivity (or lack of). Taking soundscape as a conceptual framework and incorporating concepts of cultural landscape and intangible cultural heritage, this chapter explores the role of sound in defining and articulating human-nature connectivity through a sound symbolic to a traditional Japanese divers’ culture. It is a phenomenological enquiry into a sustainable human-nature relationship where intangibility of human-nature relationship human is recognized in a sound. ER -