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9781859734674: Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place
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ISBN 10: 1859734677 ISBN 13: 9781859734674
Editorial: Routledge, 2001

Sinopsis

Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action; people make them and are made by them. How people understand and engage with their material world depends upon particularities of time and place. These understandings are dynamic, variable, contradictory and open-ended. Landscapes are thus always evolving and are often volatile and contested. They are also always on the move - people may or may not be rooted, but they have ’legs’. From prehistoric times onwards people have travelled, but the process of people-on-the-move - as tourists, or on global business, as migrant workers or political or economic refugees - has vastly accelerated. How and why do people who share the same landscape have different and often violently opposed ways of understanding its significance? How do people-on-the-move make sense of the unfamiliar? How do they create a sense of place? How do they rework the memories of places left behind? There is nothing easeful about the landscapes discussed in this book, which are often harsh-edged and troubled both socially and politically. The contributors tackle contested notions of landscape to explain the key role it plays in creating identity and shaping human behaviour. This landmark study offers an important contribution towards an understanding of the complexity of landscape.

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Barbara Bender Professor in Heritage Anthropology,University College London Margot Winer Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California and Co-ordinator, SMC Study Abroad Program, University of Cape Town

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2001
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1859734677
ISBN 13 
9781859734674
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
401
Editor
Bender Barbara, Winer Margot
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Alemania

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9781859734629: Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place

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ISBN 10:  1859734626 ISBN 13:  9781859734629
Editorial: Routledge, 2001
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