Title & Author:

Conversations with landscape / edited by Karl Benediktsson and Katrín Anna Lund.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2010.

Description:

xi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Anthropological studies of creativity and perception

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : starting a conversation with landscape / Katrín Anna Lund and Karl Benediktsson -- Conversations with ourselves in metaphysical experiences of nature / Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir -- The limits of our conversations with nature / Gabriel Malenfant -- Landscape as conversation / Edda R.H. Waage -- Time for fluent landscapes / Oscar Aldred -- Grief paves the way / Arnar Árnason -- Slipping into landscape / Katrín Anna Lund and Margaret Willson -- Landscape and aesthetic values : not only in the eye of the beholder / Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir -- The sublime, ugliness, and terrible beauty in icelandic landscapes / Emily Brady -- Transporting nature : landscape in icelandic urban culture / Anna Jóhannsdóttir and Ástráður eysteinsson -- Ways of addressing nature in a northern context : Romantic poet and natural scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson / Sveinn Yngvi Egilsson -- A stroll through landscapes of sheep and humans / Karl Benediktsson -- Sentience / Anne Brydon -- The empty wilderness : seals and animal representation / Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson -- Aurora landscapes : affective atmospheres of light and dark / Tim edensor -- Epilogue / Tim Ingold.
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Summary:

Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing communication that is inherent in any perception, recognising the often-ignored mutuality of encounters between human and non-human actors.
With contributions drawn from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, geography, archaeology, philosophy, literature and the visual arts, this book explores the affects and emotions engendered in the conversations between landscape and humans. Offering scope for an original and coherent approach to the study of landscape, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers across a range of social sciences and humanities.
The central theme is clear and persuasive, the focus on northern landscapes fascinating throughout. Conversations With Landscape offers a consistently excellent set of essays which will be welcomed and widely read by anthropologists, cultural geographers, visual and aesthetic theorists, and, in particular, the wide interdisciplinary community of landscape scholars and students John Wylie, University of Exeter, UK.
Collectively the essays of Conversations With Landscape create an innovative landscape of their own, refusing to take landscape and human engagement with it for granted. Indeed, there is much to explore. These are fascinating tales - theoretical, ethnographic, and historical - about the moving landscape. Not only is it forever changing, it touches people in a variety of ways Gisli Palsson, University of Iceland, Iceland --Book Jacket.

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ISBN:

9781409401865 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409401863 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409401872 (ebook)
1409401871 (ebook)

Subject:

Environmental psychology.
Psychologie de l'environnement.
environmental psychology.
Landschaft
Mensch, Natur und Kultur
Cultuurlandschappen.
Sociale geografie.
Umweltwahrnehmung.
Umweltpsychologie.
Socialantropologi.
Miljöpsykologi.
landschapsbeleving
landscape experience
landschapsanalyse
landscape analysis
landschap
landscape
omgevingspsychologie
sociale antropologie
social anthropology
Environmental Psychology
Omgevingspsychologie
Landscapes (environments)

Added entries:

Benediktsson, Karl.
Lund, Katrín Anna.
Anthropological studies of creativity and perception.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284290
Call No.: BIB 223013
Status: Available