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An anthropology of landscape : the extraordinary in the ordinary
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 emphasises 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 it…
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- 9781911307433
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- xix, 346 p. ill;
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- 333.95160941 ANA C
Legacies of space and intangible heritage : archaeology, ethnohistory, and th…
This volume looks at how different physical environments contribute to the reproduction of cultural forms even in the wake of colonization, migration, and other processes of displacement and change. This raises the question of whether cultural practices are altered by changes in physical environment or if a group’s narratives and practices shape their location. Using case studies from North a…
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- 9781607325727
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- IX, 249 p.
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- 973 AMS l
Landscape biographies : geographical, historical and archaeological perspecti…
Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.
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- 9789089644725
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- 437p. : ill.
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- 304.2 LAN l
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