The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on Place and Space

by Eric Hirsch

Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into 'view', and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of 'landscape' may be used as productive point of departure from which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198280106
• ISBN13: 9780198280101
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"