Gardens and Cultural Change (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
110
Utgivningsdatum
2008-01-01
Förlag
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Medarbetare
Quilter, Jeffrey (red.)
Illustrationer
35 black and white photographs; 37 color photographs
Dimensioner
263 x 243 x 13 mm
Vikt
586 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780884023302

Gardens and Cultural Change

A Pan-American Perspective

av Michel Conan, Jeffrey Quilter
Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-01-01
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Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive cultural change, rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology; political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested.
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Michel Conan, Jeffrey Quilter

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Michel Conan is Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. Jeffrey Quilter is Deputy Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

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