City As Text - The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom

Zusammenfassung Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced! but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Preface; Glossary of terms; A note on transliteration; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; Part II. Towards an Interpretive Frame: 2. Landscape as a signifying system; 3. The discursive field of Kandyan kingship; 4. Concretizing the Sakran discourse: from landscape of the gods to landscape of the hero-kings; 5. The Kandyan landscape, 1312-1815; Part III. The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kandy: 6. From discourse to landscape: a kingly reading; 7. From landscape to civic ritual: a kingly reading; 8. From landscape to discourse: contestatory readings and material interests; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; List of references; Index.

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• Authors: James S. Duncan, James S. (Syracuse University Duncan, Duncan James S.
• Assisted by: David Ley (Editor), Brian Robson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2005
• EAN: 9780521611961
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61196-1
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Human Geography; Cambridge Human Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Sri Lanka, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Human Geography, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)