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Landscapes beyond land : routes, aesthetics, narratives / / edited by Arnar Árnason ... [et. al.]



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Titolo: Landscapes beyond land : routes, aesthetics, narratives / / edited by Arnar Árnason ... [et. al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
Disciplina: 304.2/3
304.23
Soggetto topico: Landscape assessment
Landscape changes
Geographical perception
Altri autori: ÁrnasonArnar  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Landscapes beyond Land; Chapter 1-Walking the Past in the Present; Chapter 2-'A Painter's Eye Is Just a Way of Looking at the World': Botanic Artist Roger Banks; Chapter 3-Encountering Glaciers: Two Centures of Stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America; Chapter 4-Fences, Pathways and a Peripatetic Sense of Community: Kinship and Residence amonst the Nivaclé of the Paraguayan Chaco; Chapter 5-Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: The Arizona Hopi
Chapter 6-Thalloo My Vea: Narrating the Landscapes of Life in the Isle of ManChapter 7-Cairns in the Landscape: Migrant Stones and Migrant Stories in Scotland and its Diaspora; Chapter 8-Beholding the Speckled Salmon: Folk Liturgies and Narratives of Ireland's Holy Wells; Chapter 9-How the Land Should Be: Narrating Progress on Farms in Islay, Scotland; Chapter 10-Visible Relations and Invisible Realms: Speech, Materiality and Two Manggari Landscapes; Chapter 11 - The Shape of the Land; Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 throu
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ISBN: 1-283-65565-9
0-85745-672-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816186603321
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Serie: EASA series ; ; v. 19.