Anthropology of Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology of Landscape write by Christopher Tilley. This book was released on 2017-02-01. Anthropology of Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape
The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape write by Robert Layton. This book was released on 2003-09-02. The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.
Material Culture and Sacred Landscape
Material Culture and Sacred Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Material Culture and Sacred Landscape write by Peter Jordan. This book was released on 2003. Material Culture and Sacred Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
The Anthropology of Landscape
The Anthropology of Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anthropology of Landscape write by Eric Hirsch. This book was released on 1995. The Anthropology of Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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 diverse set 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 developed here 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.
Landscapes of Movement
Landscapes of Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of Movement write by James E. Snead. This book was released on 2011-09-01. Landscapes of Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this volume document trails, paths, and roads across different times and cultures, from those built by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North America to causeway builders in the Bolivian Amazon to Bronze Age farms in the Near East, through aerial and satellite photography, surface survey, historical records, and excavation.
