Landscape in mind : dialogue on space between anthropology and archaeology / edited by George Dimitriadis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dimitriadis, George.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2003.

BAR international series ; 2003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural landscapes.

Landscape archaeology.

Physical Description:

iv, 130 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.

Contents:

Landscape in mind: dialogue on space between anthropology and archaeology / George Dimitriadis

THEORY-PHILOSOPHY. New and old paradigms: the question of space / Livio Dobrez

The emergent novelty of landscape in poet orators' perspectives: landscape archaeology and sustaining plurality of future aspirations / Stephanie Koerner

From the 'natural' forecast to the 'forest' of signs: the production of rock-art and the management of space in EBA societies / George Dimitriadis

ANTHROPOLOGY. Entre anthropologie, histoire et préhistoire / Antonio Guerci

Mind mapping among Mbowamb and around Motten: on the significance of landmarks in interior New Guinea and ancient Central Europe / Henry Doselda

West Kennet Avenue: avenue of gender/avenue of power / Sims Lionel

Terra Sapiens: how landscape invented man / Meschiari Matteo

CULTURE ASTRONOMY. The connection between the terrestrial and celestial landscape during the Bronze Age in the Carpathian Basin: orientation of houses / Emilia Pasztor

Political and religious expression in romanesque sacral architecture in Slovenia / Saša Čaval

Sacred territories: astronomy, ritual and the creation of landscape at the passage grave sites of Neolithic Ireland / Kate Prendergrast

What was the nature of the relationship between man and natural space at the neolithic stone circles at Avebury in southern England? / Harry Meaden

ARCHAEOLOGY. 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

To the world I belong: places and monumental architecture at the Portuguese Alto Douro / Gonçalo Velho

Val Bormida (Ligurie, Italie): espace antropologique dans la prehistoire entre exploitation des ressources locals et domain de montagne / Davide Delfino

Des espaces bons pour l'exclusion / Hameau Philippe

POSTERS. Room for rivalry and religion: ritualized rock art reflections of the Bronze Age landscape of Tanum in Bohuslän / Ulf Bertilsson

The cultural nature of natural places in the Alps / Franco Nicolis

Final comments. Some concluding observations on emergent novelty and promising new relations between archaeology, anthropology and philosophy / Stephanie Koerner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407305394

1407305395

OCLC:

468779998