Political Landscapes of Capital Cities

AvJessica Joyce Christie,Jelena Bogdanovic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

1 020 kr

Tillfälligt slut

Beskrivning

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put forth in Adam T. Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities to expose the intimate associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate the sociopolitical needs of governmental authority.Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historical, political, and cultural narratives of capital cities such as Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a careful visual analysis, hinging on the methodological tools of not only architectural and urban design but also cultural, historiographical, and anthropological studies. The collection provides further ways to conceive of how processes of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals differently without losing grasp of local distinctive architectural and spatial features. The essays also articulate the many complex political and ideological agendas of a diverse set of sovereign entities that planned, constructed, displayed, and performed their societal ideals in the spaces of their capitals, ultimately confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial.Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Parmly Toxey, Alexei Vranich

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:730 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:432
Förlag:University Press of Colorado
ISBN:9781607324683

Utforska kategorier

Arkeologi inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Jessica Joyce Christie is associate professor of art history at East Carolina University. She specializes in the visual culture of the Maya and Inka as well as in the Southwest and Northwest of Native North America. Her research and resulting publications on palace architecture, landscapes of origin, and Inka sculpted outcrops have been supported by a summer fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, a Research/Creativity Award from East Carolina University, and several college and departmental funding sources.Jelena Bogdanović is assistant professor at Iowa State University. She specializes in the architectural history of Byzantine, Slavic, Western European, and Islamic cultures in the Balkans and the Mediterranean. She is coeditor of On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918–1941). Her research has been supported by several grants including those from the International Center of Medieval Art and the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities at Iowa State University.Eulogio Guzmán teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with Tufts University; he specializes in the art and architecture and sociocultural history of Amerindian societies and Spanish colonial territories.

Recensioner i media

“A truly unique and much needed contribution. . . . In exposing various forms of spatial transformation induced by politics and ideology across time and diverse geographies, the book argues for the multifaceted social productions of space both as a historical norm and as contemporarily relevant.”—Igor Marjanović, Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis"[Political Landscapes of Capital Cities] is a welcome contribution to the study of the spatialization of society and suggests paths that anthropologists can take to analyze political space in urban and non-urban settings alike."—Anthropology Review Database"[E]ngaging and interdisciplinary. . . . an important contribution to our understanding of the historical roles that space and politics play in determining the shape and memory of capital cities throughout the world. Humanists will appreciate the methodological rigor that the contributors employ in their approaches to this cohesive theme. Summing Up: Highly recommended."—CHOICE"[O]utstanding contributions of an interdisciplinary group of authors trained in different methodologies. . . . offer[s] both scholarly and popular audiences wide-ranging perspectives in exploring, imagining, perceiving and experiencing capital cities."—Journal of Urban Cultural Studies