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Maria Cruz Cardete del Olmo, « La construcción del paisaje como arma de control político: el caso de la tribu azania », Actes du Groupe de Recherches sur l’Esclavage depuis l’Antiquité, ID : 10670/1.hwte2f
Landscape is not a deposit of realities, but a very complex system of meaning that includes physical realities and perceptions of these. Landscape reflects and, at the same time, helps to build a society. The building of landscape and its ideological use implies many social consequences, so landscape is used by elites as a way of very useful social control. Landscape is considered “natural”, so it does not seem modifiable, and people think that no social group is responsible for its existence. Because of that, historians have the responsibility to denature and deconstruct landscape. In this article I will do it trying to show the mechanisms of manipulation of time and space to build identity in a specific landscape : the Azanian tribe (Arcadia).