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Ideas of Landscape By Matthew Johnson(auth.)
2006 | 263 Pages | ISBN: 1405101598 | PDF | 7 MB
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 Content: Chapter One Introduction (pages 1-17): Chapter Two Lonely as a Cloud (pages 18-33): Chapter Three A Good Pair of Boots (pages 34-69): Chapter Four The Loss of Innocence (pages 70-118): Chapter Five Landscape Archaeology Today (pages 119-161): Chapter Six The Politics of Landscape (pages 162-192): Chapter Seven Conclusion (pages 193-202):
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