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Landscapes Beyond Land
eBook - Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives, EASA Series
ISBN/EAN: 9780857456724
Umbreit-Nr.: 1999077
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 228 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 01.09.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p> 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 through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.</p>
- Kurztext
- 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 through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
- Autorenportrait
- <p><strong>Nicolas Ellison</strong>is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Toulouse).</p>