The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested.
This book is about the complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.
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'A welcome contribution to the study of landscape, especially ... the consideration of its cosmological dimension.' Urban Studies '...an excellent selection of stimulating, well-written papers, which clarify the political dimensions of landscape. The embeddedness of the political, the cognitive and the ideological in past and present landscapes,,,is made crystal clear, with little heavy polemic, by the case studies presented. ...a refreshing book, a guidebook for a tour of wider horizons; it should be on every landscape student's bookshelf.' Landscape History '...the rather eccentric but very exciting collection of 10 papers...Why are landscapes so important to humans at all? These are some of the thought-provoking questions that run through the book, although each author addresses them in different ways.' Antiquity '...a rich and stimulating book. It appears at an opportune moment...will stimulate further reflection and assist the developing debate in a positive fashion.' Ecumene
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Also available in paperback, 9780854963737 GBP22.99 (December, 1993)
Contents: Introduction - B. Bender, Landscape: Meaning and Action -J.
Thomas, The Politics of Vision and the Archaeologies of Landscape - C.
Tilley, Art, Architecture, Landscape [ Neolithic Sweden] - S. Kuechler,
Landscape as Memory: The Mapping of Process and its Representation in a
Melanesian Society - N. Jarman, Intersecting Belfast - F. Edholm, The view
from Below: Paris in the 1880s - B. Bodenhorn, Gendered Spaces, Public
Places: Public and Private Revisited on the North Slope of Alaska - H.
Morphy, Colonialism, History and the Construction of Place: The Politics of
Landscape in Northern Australia - B. Bender, Stonehenge: Contested Landscapes
[ Medieval to Present Day] - D. Cosgrove, Landscapes and Myths, Gods and
Humans - K. Olwig, Sexual Cosmology: Nation and Landscape at the Conceptual
Interstices of Nature and Culture. Or What Does Landscape Really Mean?
Barbara Bender Professor in Heritage Anthropology,University College London
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