Landscapes Beyond Land: Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

Landscapes Beyond Land

Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Edited by: Arnar Árnason , Nicolas Ellison , Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse

Volume 19 in the series EASA Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857456724

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About this book

Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.

Author / Editor information

Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Nicolas Ellison is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Toulouse).

Jo Vergunst is Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Andrew Whitehouse is a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Arnar Árnason is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.

Reviews

“This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume…What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or culturally conditioned to read different landscapes.” · The Australian Journal of Anthropology

“The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well.” · Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface and Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Landscapes beyond Land Jo Vergunst, Andrew Whitehouse, Nicolas Ellison and Arnar Árnason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Walking the Past in the Present Christopher Tilley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 ‘A Painter’s Eye Is Just a Way of Looking at the World’ Botanic Artist Roger Banks Griet Scheldeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3 Encountering Glaciers: Two Centuries of Stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America Julie iksh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4 Fences, Pathways and a Peripatetic Sense of Community: Kinship and Residence amongst the Nivaclé of the Paraguayan Chaco Suzanne Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5 Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: The Arizona Hopi Patrick Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6 Thalloo My Vea: Narrating the Landscapes of Life in the Isle of Man Sue Lewis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7 Cairns in the Landscape: Migrant Stones and Migrant Stories in Scotland and its Diaspora Paul Basu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
8 Beholding the Speckled Salmon: Folk Liturgies and Narratives of Ireland’s Holy Wells Celeste Ray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
9 How the Land Should Be: Narrating Progress on Farms in Islay, Scotland Andrew hite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
10 Visible Relations and Invisible Realms: Speech, Materiality and Two Manggarai Landscapes Catherine Allerton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
11 The Shape of the Land Tim Ingold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 228
Keywords: Environmental Studies (General); Anthropology (General)

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Published: September 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857456724