Choreographies of Landscape

Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park

Sally Ann Ness (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-116-9 (ISBN)

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This original and cross-disciplinary book studies the experiences of Yosemite park visitors in order to understand human connection with & within natural landscapes. It grounds a sophisticated semiotic analysis in the lived experiences of parkgoers, assembling a collective account that will be of interest in a range of disciplines.

As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within natural landscapes. By grounding a novel “eco-semiotic” analysis in the lived reality of parkgoers, it forges surprising connections, assembling a collective account that will be of interest to disciplines ranging from performance studies to cultural geography.

Sally Ann Ness is Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Riverside. She is author of Where Asia Smiles (2003) as well as Body Movement and Culture (1992), which won the de la Torre Bueno Prize and the CORD Outstanding Publication in Dance Research Award. She has also co-edited, with Carrie Noland, the collection Migrations of Gesture (2008). Her research in Yosemite was funded in part by a 2007 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Acknowledgements

PART I: APPROACH

Introduction: Landscape Performance Theory, an Introduction

PART II: VISITING

Chapter 1. Bouldering: Movements of the Unforetold

Chapter 2. Climbing: Scenic-Obscenic Movement

Chapter 3. Hiking: Self-World Transformations

PART III: MOVING ON

Chapter 4. Unwinding and Changing Course

Chapter 5. The Spartanburg Coincidence

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.3.2016
Reihe/Serie	Dance and Performance Studies
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-116-7 / 1785331167
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-116-9 / 9781785331169
Zustand	Neuware