Landscapes beyond land : routes, aesthetics, narratives /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Description:viii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:EASA series ; 19
EASA series ; v. 19.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8926795
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Other authors / contributors:Árnason, Arnar.
ISBN:9780857456717 (hardback : alk. paper)
0857456717 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780857456724 (e-book)
0857456725 (e-book)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 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 centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America
  • Chapter 4. Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle 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 Man
  • Chapter 7. Cairns in the landscape. Migrant stones and migrant stories in Scotland and its diaspora
  • Chapter 8. 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 Manggarai landscapes
  • Chapter 11. The shape of the land
  • Bibliography
  • Index