Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
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1. Verfasser: Janowski, Monica (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012
Schriftenreihe:Anthropological studies of creativity and perception
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Beschreibung: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
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:184 pages
ISBN:9781409429722
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