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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE
PERSPECTIVES ON PLACE AND SPACE |
| By: |
Eric Hirsch (Editor), Michael O'Hanlon (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£107.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198280106 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198280101 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 June, 1995 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
This volume offers original new anthropological perspectives on landscape, a topic of emerging interest not only for anthropologists but also for geographers, art historians, and archaeologists. It is proposed that landscape be conceptualized as a cultural process, one situated between "place" and "space". An art historian and nine noted anthropologists exemplify this perspective, drawing on various case studies from around the world, taking in modern andtraditional societies in the present and the past. |
| Synopsis: |
Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of "landscape" may be used as a productive point of departure from which to explore analogous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively be used to interrogate the Western construct. The Introduction argues that landscape should be conceptualized as a cultural process: a process located between place and space, foreground actuality and background potentiality, image and representation. In the chapters that follow, nine noted anthropologists and an art historian exemplify this approach, drawing on a diverse set of case studies. These range from an analysis of Indian calendar art to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the creation of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes particular to the Papua New Guinean rainforests.The anthropological perspectives developed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, art historians, and archaeologists will be no less interested than anthropologists in this re-envisaging of the notion of landscape. |
| Illustrations: |
36 black and white illustrations, line figures, tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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