Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives (EASA Series)
Jo Vergunst, Arnar Arnason, Nicolas Ellison, Andrew Whitehouse
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Description for Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives (EASA Series)
Hardcover. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms. Editor(s): Arnason, Arnar; Ellison, Nicolas; Vergunst, Jo Lee; Whitehouse, Andrew. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC; RNT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
EASA Series
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857456717
SKU
V9780857456717
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99-15
About Jo Vergunst, Arnar Arnason, Nicolas Ellison, Andrew Whitehouse
Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.
Reviews for Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives (EASA Series)
“This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume…What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or culturally conditioned ... Read more