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Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it.A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery. Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology, anthropology and human geography.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-139781859730768
eBay Product ID (ePID)96727784
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
Publication NameA Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAnthropology, History
Publication Year1997
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher Tilley
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight325 g
Item Width138 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorChristopher Tilley
