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OverviewThe environment we inhabit is inseparable from culture. The contributors to this volume move through time and space - from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from Aboriginal Australia to the industrial heart of Britain - to compare the ways in which the environment is constructed in different ways across cultures. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, bringing together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, historians, and literary scholars to provide challenging perspectives on the ways in which culture influences human conceptions of landscape and the environment. The essays explore the interrelationship between values and emotions associated with 'landscape', and the economic practices that help to shape the physical and social environments in which people live. The book provides powerful evidence of the role of culture in shaping our understanding of the material world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kate Flint (Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature, and Fellow, Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature, and Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford) , Howard Morphy (Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.496kg ISBN: 9780198233787ISBN 10: 0198233787 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 November 2000 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; 1. 'In England's Green and Pleasant Land': The English Enlightenment and the Environment ; 2. Environments Within: An Ethnographic Commentary on Scale ; 3. Ways of Place-making ; 4. Landscapes with People ; 5. The French Nineteenth-century Landscape ; 6. Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-century Culture ; 7. Our Animal Environment ; 8. Environment as HeritageReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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