Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

AvArnar Árnason,Nicolas Ellison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del 19 i serien EASA Series

1 903 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:435 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:EASA Series
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9780857456717

Utforska kategorier

Mer om författaren

Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Recensioner i media

“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 to read different landscapes.” · The Australian Journal of Anthropology“The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well.” · Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University

Innehållsförteckning

List of figuresNotes on contributorsPrefaceIntroduction Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew WhitehouseChapter 1. Walking the past in the presentChristopher TilleyChapter 2. ‘A painter’s eye is just a way of looking at the world’: botanic artist Roger BanksGriet ScheldemanChapter 3. Encountering glaciers: Two centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North AmericaJulie CruikshankChapter 4. Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle of the Paraguayan ChacoSuzanne GrantChapter 5. Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: the Arizona HopiPatrick PérezChapter 6. Thalloo my vea: Narrating the landscapes of life in the Isle of ManSue LewisChapter 7. Cairns in the landscape. Migrant stones and migrant stories in Scotland and its diasporaPaul BasuChapter 8. Folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland’s holy wellsCeleste RayChapter 9. How the land should be: Narrating progress on farms in Islay, ScotlandAndrew WhitehouseChapter 10. Visible relations and invisible realms: Speech, materiality and two Manggarai landscapesCatherine AllertonChapter 11. The shape of the landTim IngoldBibliographyIndex