The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space - POD TITLE

Zusatztext The volume has a wide geographical range! with British-based scholars providing accounts of largely nonwestern fields. ... many geographers will find the book a valuable source. Informationen zum Autor Eric Hirsch is Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences, Brunel University. Michael O'Harrlon is Assistant Keeper of the Museum of Mankind, the Ethnography department of the British Museum Klappentext 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 volumefollows 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 diverseset 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 developedhere 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. Zusammenfassung This volume offers anthropological perspectives on landscape, a topic of emerging interest for anthropologists, geographers, art historians and archaeologists. It proposes that landscape be conceptualized as a cultural process situated between "place" and "space"....

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• Authors: Michael Hanlon, Eric Hirsch, O&apos, Michael O'Hanlon
• Assisted by: Hirsch (Editor), Eric Hirsch (Editor), Hirsch Eric (Editor), Michael O'Hanlon (Editor), Michael E. O'Hanlon (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.1995
• EAN: 9780198280101
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828010-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Human Geography