Landscapes Beyond Land : : Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives / / ed. by Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst, Andrew Whitehouse.

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 "idian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Landscapes beyond Land
  • 1 Walking the Past in the Present
  • 2 ‘A Painter’s Eye Is Just a Way of Looking at the World’ Botanic Artist Roger Banks
  • 3 Encountering Glaciers: Two Centuries of Stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America
  • 4 Fences, Pathways and a Peripatetic Sense of Community: Kinship and Residence amongst the Nivaclé of the Paraguayan Chaco
  • 5 Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: The Arizona Hopi
  • 6 Thalloo My Vea: Narrating the Landscapes of Life in the Isle of Man
  • 7 Cairns in the Landscape: Migrant Stones and Migrant Stories in Scotland and its Diaspora
  • 8 Beholding the Speckled Salmon: Folk Liturgies and Narratives of Ireland’s Holy Wells
  • 9 How the Land Should Be: Narrating Progress on Farms in Islay, Scotland
  • 10 Visible Relations and Invisible Realms: Speech, Materiality and Two Manggarai Landscapes
  • 11 The Shape of the Land
  • Contributors
  • Index