Аннотация:Historical landscapes as remainders of memoriesThe phrases 'landscape as a text' and 'the iconography of landscape' are frequently used in the sphere of contemporary landscape studies.Both of these metaphors emphasise the coincident existence of cultures in their social contexts and the representation of their ideological and symbolic values as a part of landscape reading and interpretation.This means that the traditional concept of the cultural landscape only as an areal container of visible cultural elements has been supplemented with the concept of a landscape as an intersubjective mental construction consisting of meanings and symbols which express the individual, communal and social values of a particular culture.Thus a landscape is understood as 'a way of seeing' -a communicative device in which the reproduction of meanings, values and social order is mediated.(Raivo 1997.)
