Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes by Jan Kolen, Rita Hermans, Hans Renes (Hardcover, 2015)
Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'. In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gisli Palsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
ISBN-13
9789089644725
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138849692
Product Key Features
Author
Jan Kolen, Rita Hermans, Hans Renes
Publication Name
Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
438 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Landscape and Heritage Studies
Editor
Hans Renes, Jan Kolen, Rita Hermans
Country/Region of Manufacture
Netherlands
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