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Landscapes beyond land : routes, aesthetics, narratives /

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 desc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Árnason, Arnar (Autor)
Otros Autores: Vergunst, Jo, Whitehouse, Andrew, Ellison, Nicolas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Colección:EASA series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.