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eventscape en · NOUN

Etymology

From event + -scape.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:cultural anthropology) A set of locations (with associated actions and events) that jointly provide the setting for and represent a culturally important narrative.
   • Whether this wreck site represents the remains of Groningen or not is still unknown, and perhaps will never be known, but it illustrates an event in the dramatic historical eventscape of coastal Elmina. 2017, Alicia Caporaso, Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes, →ISBN:
   • The internment of eventscape is instrumental in incorporating new generations of Japanese Americans into the internment story. 2009, Teresita Majewski, David Gaimster, International Handbook of Historical Archaeology, →ISBN, page 61:
   • For many American Indians there are six nested levels including, from broadest to narrowest spatial scale: eventscapes, Holy Lands, songscapes, regional landscapes, ecoscapes, and landmarks. 2001, Bulletin of the High Plains Regional Society for Applied Anthropology:
2. A location viewed as the venue for a public event.
   • By the 1950s, the eventscapes of Vancouver's Chinatown were indeed becoming mainstream attractions. 2014, Stephen Page, Joanne Connell, The Routledge Handbook of Events, →ISBN, page 406:
   • There are a number of studies of the tourist consumption of cities as eventscapes that illustrate how a European matrix of perfect “citiness” has influenced not only travelers, but city planners, brand-makers, and local politicians, who learned to see their city through the tourist mode of consumption (see Willim 2005; Marling and Zerlang 2007). 2015, Ullrich Kockel, Máiréad Nic Craith, Jonas Frykman, A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe, →ISBN, page 346:
   • Using outdoor spaces for events generates media coverage of identifiable cityscapes and it dramatises them, creating eventscapes. 2015, Andrew Smith, Events in the City: Using public spaces as event venues, →ISBN, page 50:

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