View and space. On constructing landscapes in the Bieszczady region

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The article is devoted to the problem of constructing landscapes on the example of a Polish region which in the common imagination is strongly grounded as series of views. The author uses the theoretical findings of landscape anthropologists and discusses different modes of constructing local landscapes. Two general perspectives have been confronted here: guest/outsider and inhabitant/insider. The first is also the perspective of the ethnographer who looks at “views”, but also perceives the agency of objects-things that participate in the production of the landscape. The relationship of inhabitants with the environment, appropriate for the second perspective, was illustrated by several aspects of this relationship, captured in the field and intertwined with the experience of space by residents. The construction of Bieszczady landscapes takes place through things and objects, by shaping places and by using references and objects from the past