GEOGRAPHICAL RECORD ASSESSING MODERNIZATION IN HONDURAN LANDSCAPES USING REPEAT PHOTOGRAPHY

摘要

In 1999, Honduran historian Mario Argueta wrote "Enpocasdecadaspasamos del pacienteburro....a la communication electronica, en susdistintasmodalidadesqu-enosconecta con el mundo. ... Las distancias se acortaron, la genteinteractuo con masfrecuencia."("In a few decades we have passed from the patient burro... to electronic communication, in its various forms that connects us to the world. ... Distances are shorter, people interact more frequently"—Argueta 1999, 15). By chronicling the development oftransportation in the country, Argueta offered a look at the changes in accessibility that come with the expansion of modern transportation and communication technologies. Rapid transformations are, of course, taking place across the world. Places and people that have long had very localized existences and traditions of community are suddenly being connected in vastly new ways to places and people the world over. Watching people in still isolated rural areas read and send text messages from horseback reminds one vividly of the swiftness of such transformations.