Overview

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 quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.

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Author:   Arnar Arnason ,  Nicolas Ellison ,  Jo Vergunst ,  Andrew Whitehouse
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   19
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9780857456717

ISBN 10:   0857456717
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   01 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of figures Notes on contributors Preface Introduction Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse Chapter 1. Walking the past in the present Christopher Tilley Chapter 2. ‘A painter’s eye is just a way of looking at the world’: botanic artist Roger Banks Griet Scheldeman Chapter 3. Encountering glaciers: Two centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America Julie Cruikshank Chapter 4. Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle of the Paraguayan Chaco Suzanne Grant Chapter 5. Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: the Arizona Hopi Patrick Pérez Chapter 6. Thalloo my vea: Narrating the landscapes of life in the Isle of Man Sue Lewis Chapter 7. Cairns in the landscape. Migrant stones and migrant stories in Scotland and its diaspora Paul Basu Chapter 8. Folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland’s holy wells Celeste Ray Chapter 9. How the land should be: Narrating progress on farms in Islay, Scotland Andrew Whitehouse Chapter 10. Visible relations and invisible realms: Speech, materiality and two Manggarai landscapes Catherine Allerton Chapter 11. The shape of the land Tim Ingold Bibliography Index

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The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic - [T]his new collection is timely, - exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well. * Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University

“This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume…What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or culturally conditioned to read different landscapes.”  ·  The Australian Journal of Anthropology “The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well.”  ·  Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University

Author Information

Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

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