ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two issues: one concerning the perspectives on landscapes in two neighbouring, historically divided regions, the other on anthropological landscape investigation. The Kolovrat Outdoor Museum is part of a larger memory landscape, the Walk of Peace, one of whose aims is to make the current international border ‘invisible’, and in this sense it accords with one of the European Union’s visions. This aim, cast as a historical mission, has a strong local character which is relevant to the borderlands of the Soca Valley in Slovenia and the Natisone Valleys in Italy. In Italy, Great War figures such as Riccardo di Giusto are regarded as heroic national heritage. T. Ingold’s ‘dwelling perspective’ points out that through bodily movement, such as walking, human beings enact and experience landscape, which inheres in an activity of movement. The chapter deals with self-reflexive comment, and in light of the obvious point that experiencing a landscape differs according to life experiences connected with it.
