The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space /

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Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Description:xi, 268 p.
Language:English
Series:Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1742901
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Other authors / contributors:Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
O'Hanlon, Michael.
ISBN:0198278802 (acid-free paper)
0198280106 (acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Landscape: Between Place and Space / Eric Hirsch
  • 1. Looking at the Landscape: Class Formation and the Visual / Nicholas Green
  • 2. Land, People, and Paper in Western Amazonia / Peter Gow
  • 3. People into Places: Zafimaniry Concepts of Clarity / Maurice Bloch
  • 4. Moral Topophilia: The Significations of Landscape in Indian Oleographs / Christopher Pinney
  • 5. Landscapes of Liberation and Imprisonment: Towards an Anthropology of the Israeli Landscape / Tom Selwyn
  • 6. Chiefly and Shamanist Landscapes in Mongolia / Caroline Humphrey
  • 7. Seeing the Ancestral Sites: Transformations in Fijian Notions of the Land / Christina Toren
  • 8. Landscape and the Reproduction of the Ancestral Past / Howard Morphy
  • 9. Relating to the Country in the Western Desert / Robert Layton
  • 10. The Language of the Forest: Landscape and Phonological Iconism in Umeda / Alfred Gell.