| Description |
viii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Explorations in anthropology |
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Explorations in anthropology.
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| Contents |
Introduction : landscape - meaning and action / Barbara Bender -- The politics of vision and the archaeologies of landscape / Julian Thomas -- Art, architecture, landscape [Neolithic Sweden] / Christopher Tilley -- Landscape as memory : the mapping of process and its representation in a Melanesian society / Susanne Küchler -- Intersecting Belfast / Neil Jarman -- The view from below : Paris in the 1880s / Felicity Edholm -- Gendered spaces, public places : public and private revisited on the north slope of Alaska / Barbara Bodenhorn -- Colonialism, history and the construction of place : the politics of landscape in northern Australia / Howard Morphy -- Stonehenge - contested landscapes (Medieval to present-day) / Barbara Bender -- Landscapes and myths, gods and humans / Denis Cosgrove -- Sexual cosmology : nation and landscape at the conceptual interstices of nature and culture ; or what does landscape really mean? / Kenneth Olwig |
| Summary |
The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested |
| Analysis |
Landscapes |
| Notes |
"Many of these papers were first given within the Department of Anthropology, University College, London, as part of a departmental seminar series"--Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Geographical perception.
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Human ecology -- Political aspects.
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Landscape assessment.
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| Author |
Bender, Barbara.
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University College, London. Anthropology Department.
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| LC no. |
92039620 |
| ISBN |
0854963731 |
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0854968520 |
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