摘要
近些年来,文化、经济和社会因素已经导致沙特阿拉伯西南部高地村庄及其周围独特文化景观的发展变化。几个世纪以来,这里的居民依靠维持生存的农业来保全文化景观,通过舆论监督制度来管理地方自然资源。本文描述了发生在沙特阿拉伯阿西尔省某些村庄有关文化景观的演变。该社区最近在社会、文化、行政管理和技术条件方面已经发生了深刻变化。这种状况和该省内具有类似情况的村庄是社会结构变化普遍现象中非常典型的、有意义的例证。此类社会变化发生在环境领域内,特别发生在宏观水平上。毫无疑问,Alkas村庄的对外开放已经对文化景观的未来产生了影响。本文探索了新价值观念产生的基础,考察了某些需要解决的冲突:Alkas文化景观是否继续反映该地区和居民的地方特性,并继续代表着沙特阿拉伯西南部高地的地域特征。
Over the years, cultural, economic and social factors have led to the development of distinct cultural landscapes in and around the villages of the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia. Through centuries, the local inhabitants perpetuated this cultural landscape through subsistence agriculture and managed local natural resources through consensus-driven institutions. This paper describes the changes that have taken place with regard to the cultural landscape in a village of Asir province of Saudi Arabia. This community has recently experienced profound changes in its social, cultural, administrative and technical conditions. The situation of this and similar villages in this province is a particularly clear and interesting case of a general phenomenon of structural change in society interacting with the physical environment producing attitudinal and consequently physical changes in the field of environmental identity particularly at the macro-level. Recent economic growth in Saudi Arabia and an opening of the village of Alkas to outside influences has placed the future of this cultural landscape in doubt. The paper explores the basis of new values and examines some of the conflicts which will need to be resolved. Alc kas cultural landscape continues to reflect the local identity of the place and residents and represents the regional characteristics of the highlands of southwestern Saudi Arabia.Ambio, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 60-66, 2000
