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Ideas of Landscape

M Johnson (Autor)

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264 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-77368-0 (ISBN)
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* The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology * Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the "father of landscape history": W.G.
Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. * The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology * Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the "father of landscape history": W. G. Hoskins * Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism * Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance

Matthew Johnson is Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and author of Behind the Castle Gate (2002), Archaeological Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1999), An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell, 1996), and Housing Culture (1993).

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. The Argument. Preface: Thinking about Swaledale. 1. Introduction. 2. Lonely as a Cloud. 3. A Good Pair of Boots. 4. The Loss of Innocence. 5. Landscape Archaeology Today. 6. The Politics of Landscape. 7. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.2.2008
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 234 mm
Gewicht 481 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
ISBN-10 0-470-77368-5 / 0470773685
ISBN-13 978-0-470-77368-0 / 9780470773680
Zustand Neuware
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