Past landscapes : The dynamics of interaction between society, landscape, and culture / edited by Annette Haug, Lutz Käppel, and Johannes Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haug, Annette, editor.

Käppel, Lutz, editor.

Müller, Johannes, 1960- editor.

Series:

Human development in landscapes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes--Social aspects.

Landscapes.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2018]

Summary:

Past Landscapes' presents theoretical and practical attempts of scholars and scientists, who were and are active within the Kiel Graduate School?Human Development in Landscapes? (GSHDL), in order to disentangle a wide scope of research efforts on past landscapes. Landscapes are understood as products of human-environmental interaction. At the same time, they are arenas, in which societal and cultural activities as well as receptions of environments and human developments take place. Thus, environmental processes are interwoven into human constraints and advances.0This book presents theories, concepts, approaches and case studies dealing with human development in landscapes. On the one hand, it becomes evident that only an interdisciplinary approach can cover the manifold aspects of the topic. On the other hand, this also implies that the very different approaches cannot be reduced to a simplistic uniform definition of landscape. This shortcoming proves nevertheless to be an important strength. The umbrella term?landscape? proves to be highly stimulating for a large variety of different approaches.0The first part of our book deals with a number of theories and concepts, the second part is concerned with approaches to landscapes, whereas the third part introduces case studies for human development in landscapes. As intended by the GSHDL, the reader might follow our approach to delve into the multi-faceted theories, concepts and practices on past landscapes: from events, processes and structures in environmental and produced spaces to theories, concepts and practices concerning past societies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note : From Theories, Concepts and Practices on Human Development in Landscapes / Johannes Muller

Landscape and the GSHDL 2007-2017: Ten Years of Research / Johannes Muller

I. Past Landscapes

Theories And Concepts

The Disentanglement of Landscapes: Remarks on Concepts of Socio-Environmental Research and Landscape Archaeology / Johannes Muller

On Melting Grounds: Theories of the Landscape / Antonia Davidovic

Ritual and Landscape: Theoretical Considerations / Artur Ribeiro

II. Past Landscapes

Concepts And Practices

Putting Things into Practice: Pragmatic Theory and the Exploration of Monumental Landscapes / Doris Mischka

Who Is in Charge Here?

Material Culture, Landscapes and Symmetry / Gustav Wollentz

Urban Landscapes and Urban Networks: Some Thoughts on the Process of Writing within the Mediaeval Urbanization of Central Europe / Gabriel Zeilinger

. Visual Concepts of Human Surroundings: The Case of the Early Greek Polis (10th

7th century BC) / Annette Haug

The Cultural Significance of Plants / Wiebke Kirleis

III. Past Landscapes

Concepts, Space And History

Mid-Holocene Environment and Human Interaction in Northern Central Europe / Mara Weinelt

From Hunting to Herding? Aspects of the Social and Animal Landscape during the Southern Scandinavian Neolithic / Martin Hinz

Borders: Developments of Society and Landscape during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age

Face Urns as a Case Study / Jutta Kneisel

The Iron Age in Southwestern Germany / Oliver Nakoinz

The `Iranian' Period in the Near East: A Landscape Studies Approach / Josef Wiesehofer

The Bronze Age in the East

The Hittites and Their Environment / Walter Dorfler

Nature and Perception of a Greek Landscape: Stymphalos / Ingmar Unkel

. Scenes and Actors of Historical Crises between Generalizing Synthesis Formation and Postmodern Fragmentation / Donat Wehner.

Notes:

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 22, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Past landscapes. The dynamics of interaction between society, landscape, and culture.

ISBN:

9789088907302

9088907307

OCLC:

1080190623

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