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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.
Publisher : Clarendon Press; 1st edition (August 24, 1995)
Language : English
Paperback : 280 pages
ISBN-10 : 0198280106
ISBN-13 : 978-0198280101
Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
Dimensions : 9.25 x 0.66 x 6.25 inches