ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at some aspects of place-making and the place-worlds of the Seri people. In particular interest is the information lexicalized in Seri place names that pertains to the availability of natural resources at particular places, especially temporary campsites, the information regarding events that transpired in certain places, as well as the descriptions of the topographic and geomorphological characteristics of the places known to the Seri people. In general terms, people can think of the practice of place naming as one way in which people mark the landscape they inhabit, specifically it is a type of linguistic and cognitive marking of the landscape. Naming places or geographic features that were previously uncategorized in linguistic terms can facilitate their conceptualization and ability to make reference to the landscape that they inhabit. Humans also leave physical markers in their landscape, not just in the form of evidence of a camp site, for instance, but also markers with informational content.
