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The Anthropology of Landscape
Hirsch
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Description for The Anthropology of Landscape
Paperback. 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". Editor(s): Hirsch, Eric; O'Hanlon, Michael. Series: Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology. Num Pages: 280 pages, 36 black and white illustrations, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198280101
SKU
V9780198280101
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Reviews for The Anthropology of Landscape
A wideranging collection of ethnographic essays, presents a fine-grained analysis of landscape of great potential value to archaeologists.
Times Higher Education Supplement
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.
Progress in Human Geography, vol.21, no.2, 1997
Times Higher Education Supplement
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.
Progress in Human Geography, vol.21, no.2, 1997