UID:
almafu_9958139278302883
Format:
1 online resource (325 pages) :
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illustrations (maps, tables); digital, PDF file(s).
Content:
'An anthropology of landscape' tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasizes four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion...The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity and an anthropology of Great Britain.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 March 2017).
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List of figures -- List of tables -- 1. The anthropology of landscape: materiality, embodiment, contestation and emotion -- Part I. The heathland as taskscape -- 2. Managing the pebblebed heathlands -- 3. Bushes that move: the Royal Marines -- 4. Environmentalists: the giving and the taking away -- 5. Quarrying pebbles -- Part II. The landscape as leisurescape -- 6. Introduction: the public and the heathland -- 7. Modes of movement through the landscape: cycling and horse riding -- 8. The cry of the Commons: walking through furze -- 9. Art in and from the landscape -- 10. Fishing and the watery pursuit of 'pets' -- 11. Model aircraft flyers: spirals and loops in the sky -- 12. Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-911307-43-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
URL:
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