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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798255103321

Autore

Ness Sally Ann

Titolo

Choreographies of landscape : signs of performance in Yosemite National Park / / Sally Ann Ness

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-117-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

Dance and Performance Studies ; ; 8

Disciplina

979.4/47

Soggetti

Human geography - California - Yosemite National Park

Cultural landscapes - California - Yosemite National Park

National parks and reserves - Public use - California - Yosemite National Park

Ethnology - California - Yosemite National Park

Landscapes - Social aspects

Performing arts - Philosophy

Ethnology - Philosophy

Symbolism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part 1 - Approach; Landscape Performance Theory, an Introduction; Part II - Visiting; Chapter One - Bouldering: Movements of the Unforetold; Chapter Two - Climbing: Scenic-Obscenic Movement; Chapter Three - Hiking: Self-World Transformations; Part III - Moving On; Chapter Four - Unwinding and Changing Course; Chapter Five - The Spartanburg Coincidence; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. By grounding a novel “eco-semiotic” analysis in the



lived reality of parkgoers, it forges surprising connections, assembling a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.