Landscape : politics and perspectives /

Landscape : politics and perspectives / edited by Barbara Bender. - viii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. - Explorations in anthropology . - Explorations in anthropology. .

"Many of these papers were first given within the Department of Anthropology, University College, London, as part of a departmental seminar series"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : landscape - meaning and action / Barbara Bender -- The politics of vision and the archaeologies of landscape / Julian Thomas -- Art, architecture, landscape [Neolithic Sweden] / Christopher Tilley -- Landscape as memory : the mapping of process and its representation in a Melanesian society / Susanne Küchler -- Intersecting Belfast / Neil Jarman -- The view from below : Paris in the 1880s / Felicity Edholm -- Gendered spaces, public places : public and private revisited on the north slope of Alaska / Barbara Bodenhorn -- Colonialism, history and the construction of place : the politics of landscape in northern Australia / Howard Morphy -- Stonehenge - contested landscapes (Medieval to present-day) / Barbara Bender -- Landscapes and myths, gods and humans / Denis Cosgrove -- Sexual cosmology : nation and landscape at the conceptual interstices of nature and culture ; or what does landscape really mean? / Kenneth Olwig.

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Landscape assessment
Geographical perception
Human ecology--Political aspects

GF90 / .L367 1993

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