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Item Details
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SACRED GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES
RITUAL AND AGENCY |
| By: |
Michel Conan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£28.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0884023052 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780884023050 |
| Publisher: |
DUMBARTON OAKS RESEARCH LIBRARY & COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
30 June, 2007 |
| Series: |
History of Landscape Architecture Colloquium S. 26 |
| Pages: |
306 |
| Synopsis: |
Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together, the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles. |
| Illustrations: |
210 b/w photos |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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