Author : George Dimitriadis
Release : 2009
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Landscape in Mind by : George Dimitriadis

Download or read book Landscape in Mind written by George Dimitriadis. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to the present volume were asked to variously address its central theme from perspectives offered by jointly anthropological and archaeological approaches, as well as to engage some of the philosophical implications of landscape as highly interdisciplinary concept - one, which can and does draw upon a range of life and physical sciences. Contents: 1) Landscape in Mind. Dialogue on Space between Anthropology and Archaeology (George Dimitriadis); 2) New and Old Paradigms: the Question of Space (Livio Dobrez); 3) The Emergent Novelty of Landscape in Poet Orators' Perspectives: Landscape Archaeology and Sustaining Plurality of Future Aspirations (Stephanie Koerner); 4) From the 'Natural' Forest to the 'Forest' of Signs. The Production of Rock-art and the Management of Space in EBA Societies (George Dimitriadis); 5) Entre anthropologie, histoire et prehistoire (Antonio Guerci); 6) Mind Mapping among Mbowamb and around Motten - On the Significance of Landmarks in Interior New Guinea and Ancient Central Europe (Henry Doselda); 7) West Kennet Avenue: Avenue of Gender/Avenue of Power (Sims Lionel); 8) Terra Sapiens: How Landscape Invented Man (Meschiari Matteo); 9) The Connection Between the Terrestrial and Celestial Landscape during the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin: Orientation of houses (Emilia Pasztor); 10) Political and Religious Expression in Romanesque Sacral Architecture in Slovenia (Sasa Caval); 11) Sacred territories: astronomy, ritual and the creation of landscape at the passage grave sites of Neolithic Ireland (Kate Prendergrast); 12) What was the nature of the relationship between man and natural space at the neolithic stone circles at Avebury in Southern England? (Harry Meaden); 13) Gesture, Image, Architecture: how fire and rock art may have behaved in the passage graves of Anglesey, North Wales (George Nash); Is there a 'natural' space? (Luiz Oosterbeek) 14) To the world I belong: Places and monumental architecture at the Portuguese Alto Douro (Goncalo Velho); 15) Val Bormida (Ligurie, Italie): espace antropologique dans la Prehistoire entre exploitation des ressources locals et domain de montagne (Davide Delfino) ; 16) Des Espaces Bons pour l'Exclusion (Hameau Philippe) ; 17) Room for rivalry and religion - ritualized rock art reflections of the Bronze Age landscape of Tanum in Bohuslan (Ulf Bertilsson); 18) The cultural nature of natural places in the Alps (Franco Nicolis); 19) Some Concluding Observations on Emergent Novelty and Promising New Relations between Archaeology, Anthropology nd Philosophy (Stephanie Koerner).