The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space / edited by Eric Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon.

Title & Author:

The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space / edited by Eric Hirsch and Michael O'Hanlon.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Description:

xi, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Series:

Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Looking at the landscape: class formation and the visual / N. Green -- Land, people, and paper in Western Amazonia / P. Gow -- People into places: Zafimaniry concepts of clarity / M. Bloch -- Moral topophilia: the significations of landscape in Indian odeographs / C. Pinney -- Landscapes of liberation and imprisonment: towards an anthropology of the Israeli landscape / T. Selwyn -- Chiefly and Shamanist landscapes in Mongolia / C. Humphrey -- Seeing ancestral sites: transformations in Fijian notions of the land / C. Toren -- Landscape and the reproduction of the ancestral past / H. Morphy -- Relating to the country in the Western Desert / R. Layton -- The language of the forest: landscape and phonological iconism in Umeda / A. Gell.

Summary:

Articles by Morphy and Layton annotated separately.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0198278802 (acid-free paper)
9780198278801 (acid-free paper)
0198280106 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780198280101 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Raum, ...
Landscape assessment.
Human geography.
Geographical perception.
Space perception.
Cognition and culture.
Landscape Social aspects.
Space Perception
Paysages Évaluation.
Perception géographique.
Perception spatiale.
Cognition et culture.
space perception.
Zeit
Anthropogeografie
Landschaft
Landschappen.
Antropologische aspecten.
Établissements humains.
Sites historiques.
Espaces naturels Anthropologie.
Paysage Aspect psychologique.
Géographie humaine.
Écologie humaine.
London <1989>
Landscapes

Added entries:

Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
O'Hanlon, Michael.
Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86245
Call No.: ID GF90.A58; ID:95-B3932
Status: Available

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