Farming the heritage: on the production and construction of a personal and practised landscape heritage

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This paper is concerned with people, their practices and a situated, contextual and narrative mode of producing and constructing a landscape heritage. By way of illustration I offer a personal account of how I have come to know the landscape heritage of my family and their agricultural practices. Empirical material from a qualitative study among farmers on the south‐western coast of Norway will take its departure from this account. The aim is to demonstrate why a dialectics between a ‘landscape knowing’ and a ‘landscape seeing’ is relevant in debates about natural and cultural heritage.