Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (26th : 2002)

Title & Author:

Sacred gardens and landscapes : ritual and agency / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

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

Description:

314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XXVI, held at Dumbarton Oaks May 10-12, 2002"--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The cultural agency of gardens and landscapes / Michel Conan -- Gardens as anterooms to the netherworld. The place of the Sacred Grove (Alsos) in the Mantic rituals of Greece : the example of the Alsos of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boeotia) / Pierre Bonnechere ; Gardens of love and meadows of the beyond : ritual encounters with the gods and poetical performances in Ancient Greece / Claude Calame ; Religious and lay rituals in Japanese gardens during the Hein Period (784-1185) / Michel Vieillard-Baron ; The dance of time, the procession of space at Mexico-Tenochtitlan's desert garden / Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia -- A voyage through mythical lands. Mythic and sacred gardens in medieval Japan : sacral mediation in the Rokuonji and Saihoji gardens / P. Richard Stanley-Baker ; Braj : the creation of Krishna's landscape of power and pleasure and its sixteenth-century construction through the pilgrimage of the groves / Behula Shah ; Sacred texts and ritual spaces in the RamLila of Rmnager / Sarah Bonnemaison -- The problems of locality. Ancestral rituals of landscape exploration and appropriation among Indigenous communities in Early Colonial Mexico / Angel Julian Garcia-Zambrano ; Africans discover America : the ritualization of gardens, landscapes, and seascapes by Suriname maroons / Richard Price ; Horse racing, hunting, and praying in the "shady walks and sacred woods" of Cetanale / Giorgio Galletii ; Devotional landscape : ecology and orthodoxy in the work of Marietta Pallis / David Matless and Laura Cameron.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0884023052 (pbk.)
9780884023050 (pbk.)

Subject:

Gardens Religious aspects Congresses.
Landscapes Religious aspects Congresses.
Rites and ceremonies Congresses.
Jardins Aspect religieux Congrès.
Paysages Aspect religieux Congrès.
Rites et cérémonies Congrès.
11.09 systematic religious studies: other.
Gardens Religious aspects
Landscapes Religious aspects
Rites and ceremonies
Landschappen.
Tuinen.
Heilige plaatsen.
Religieuze aspecten.
Trädgårdar religiösa aspekter konferenser.
Landskap religiösa aspekter konferenser.
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; 26.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252159
Call No.: BL629.5.G37 D86 2002
Status: Available