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antropológicos

English translation: anthropolgical [landscapes]

12:09 Dec 22, 2016
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / Text from the Canary Islands
Spanish term or phrase: antropológicos
Desde el punto de vista de la vegetación y de la flora, los vestigios actuales nos permiten aproximarnos a los paisajes paleontológicos, a los antropológicos de la época aborigen, a los potenciales de vegetación natural y a los paisajes de vegetación actual.

aproximarnos a los antropológicos de la época aborigen = explore/ gain an insight into the anthropology of the indigenous era/ gain an insight into what the indigenous people were like???? TIA for your help.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 13:14
English translation:anthropolgical [landscapes]
Explanation:
It seems there's a whole "thing" about anthropolgical landscape theory. First you have the paleontological [pre-people] landscapes, then you have have anthropological ones. See:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549104542
2007
**Anthropological landscape theory hinges on a suite of recurrent themes. These themes are: the active landscape, landscape as process, landscape as ...**

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549634169
2008
First and foremost, **the anthropological landscape concept** implicitly unifies material and ideological ways of thinking about the world; landscape demands ...





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In other or, it's not about what the people were like; it's about what their landscapes were like and what that tells us about them.

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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 05:14
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Thanks a million.
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4 +5anthropolgical [landscapes]
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anthropolgical [landscapes]


Explanation:
It seems there's a whole "thing" about anthropolgical landscape theory. First you have the paleontological [pre-people] landscapes, then you have have anthropological ones. See:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549104542
2007
**Anthropological landscape theory hinges on a suite of recurrent themes. These themes are: the active landscape, landscape as process, landscape as ...**

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549634169
2008
First and foremost, **the anthropological landscape concept** implicitly unifies material and ideological ways of thinking about the world; landscape demands ...





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Note added at 1 hr (2016-12-22 13:38:34 GMT)
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In other or, it's not about what the people were like; it's about what their landscapes were like and what that tells us about them.

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Note added at 1 hr (2016-12-22 13:38:56 GMT)
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Typo: 'In other words, ....'

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 05:14
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 50
Grading comment
Thanks a million.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: It clearly does mean paisajes antropológicos, and as you say it makes sense. // Many thanks, Muriel, and the same to you!
57 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles. Happy Holidays to you and your family!

agree  Carol Gullidge
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  -> Thanks, Carol.

agree  Robert Carter: Interesting.
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  -> Thanks, Robert.

agree  James A. Walsh
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agree  Stephen D. Moore: Good answer and good explanation.
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