Title & Author:

Gardens and cultural change : a Pan-American perspective / edited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Description:

110 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
A colloquium held at Dumbarton Oaks, October 24-26, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : gardens and the construction of cultures in the Americas / Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter -- The Chinampas of the valley of Mexico / Saúl Alcántara Onofre -- Gardens in the African diaspora : forging a Creole identity in the Caribbean and the U.S. / Catherine Benoît -- An ideological-aesthetic approach to Buenos Aires public parks and plazas / Sonia Berjman -- Parks and democracy in a growing city : Palermo, Buenos Aires / Daniel Schavelzon -- The small parks in New York City and the civilizing process of immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century / Rachel Iannacone.

Summary:

"Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces in which a society may project its ideals, to conjure or contrive cultural changes by rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural changes in Argentine, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens have been expressive of popular cultural inventions, but could also be attempts at political manipulations, and sometimes place of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology, political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested. The authors engage in different approaches and conflicting interpretations, revealing the existence of debates and issues among scholars at a remove from the supposed divide between English and Spanish cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

Resources:
Table of contents
Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

9780884023302 (paperback)
0884023303 (paperback)

Subject:

Park, ...
Gardens Symbolic aspects America Congresses.
Jardins Aspect symbolique Amérique Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Gardens Symbolic aspects.
Garten
Kulturwandel
Kultureller Wandel.
Park.
America.
Amerika
tuinen
gardens
parken
parks
culturele verandering
cultural change
culturele waarden
cultural values
vs
usa
mexico
caribisch gebied
caribbean
argentina
geschiedenis
history
Garden History
Public Green and Parks
Tuinhistorie
Openbare parken en groenvoorzieningen

Form/genre:

Congress
Kongress Washington (DC) 2003.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel.
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-
Dumbarton Oaks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255058
Call No.: BIB 185119
Status: Available