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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453030803321

Titolo

Imagining landscapes [[electronic resource] ] : past, present and future / / edited by Monica Janowski, Tim Ingold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, Vt., : Ashgate Pub. Ltd, c2012

ISBN

1-317-11866-9

1-317-11865-0

1-280-87690-5

9786613718211

1-4094-2972-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

Anthropological studies of creativity and perception

Altri autori (Persone)

JanowskiMonica

IngoldTim <1948->

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Landscape assessment

Landscape changes

Geographical perception

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Seeing Ruins: Imagined and Visible Landscapes in North-East Scotland; 3 Scottish Blackhouses: Archaeological Imaginings; 6 Meaningful Resources and Resource-full Meanings: Spatial and Political Imaginaries in Southern Belize; 7 Imagining and Consuming the Coast: Anthropology, Archaeology, 'Heritage' and 'Conservation' on the Gower in South Wales; 8 Imagining the Forces of Life and the Cosmos in the Kelabit Highlands, Sarawak; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Describing the ways landscapes are perpetually shaped by the engagements and practices of their inhabitants, this innovative volume develops a processual approach to both perception and imagination. But it also brings out the ways in which these processes, animated by the hopes and dreams of inhabitants, increasingly come into conflict



with the strategies of external actors empowered to impose their own, ready-made designs upon the world. With a focus on the temporal and kinaesthetic dynamics of imagining, Imagining Landscapes foregrounds both time and movement in understanding how past, prese