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The Anthropology of Landscape - 9780198280101
Un libro in lingua di Hirsch Eric (EDT) O'Hanlon Michael (EDT) edito da Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 1995
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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 productive point of departure from which to explore analgous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively by 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, inside and outside, 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 Guinea 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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Anthropology of Landscape
- Sottotitolo: Perspectives on Place and Space
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Hirsch Eric (EDT) O'Hanlon Michael (EDT)
- Editore: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
- Collana: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 24 Gennaio '95
- Genere: MEDICAL
- Argomenti : Landscape assessment Human geography Geographical perception
- Dimensioni mm: 241 x 158 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0198280106
- EAN-13: 9780198280101