Culture, Landscape, and the Environment - The Linacre Lectures 1997

Klappentext The contributors to this volume move through time and space--from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from industrial Victorian England to Aboriginal Australia--to compare the ways in which the environment is constructed in different ways across cultures. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays looks at the relationship between culture and the environment. Leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences explore the concept of landscape across cultures, ranging from Papua New Guinea to ancient Britain. Generously illustrated, the book provides powerful evidence of the role of culture in shaping our understanding of the material world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Roy Porter: 'In England's Green and Pleasant Land': The English Enlightenment and the Environment 2: Marilyn Strathern: Environments Within: An Ethnographic Commentary on Scale 3: Fred R. Myers: Ways of Place-making 4: Barry Cunliffe: Landscapes with People 5: John House: The French Nineteenth-century Landscape 6: Isobel Armstrong: Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-century Culture 7: Harriet Rivo: Our Animal Environment 8: David Lowenthal: Environment as Heritage

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kate Flint, Kate (Reader in Victorian and Modern Englis Flint, Kate Morphy Flint
• Mitarbeit: Kate Flint (Herausgeber), Flint Kate (Herausgeber), Howard Morphy (Herausgeber), Morphy Howard (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9780198233787
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823378-7
• Seiten: 240
• Serien: Linacre Lectures; Linacre Lectures
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Geography, Cultural Studies, NATURE / Ecology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social impact of environmental issues, Social and cultural anthropology, Environmental archaeology