Ideas of Landscape

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John Wiley & Sons, 15 apr 2008 - 272 pagina's

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

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Inhoudsopgave

1 Introduction
1
2 Lonely as a Cloud
18
3 A Good Pair of Boots
34
4 The Loss of Innocence
70
5 Landscape Archaeology Today
119
6 The Politics of Landscape
162
7 Conclusion
193
Glossary
203
References
206
Index
233
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Ideas of Landscape
Matthew Johnson
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

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Over de auteur (2008)

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).

Bibliografische gegevens

TitelIdeas of Landscape
AuteurMatthew Johnson
UitgeverJohn Wiley & Sons, 2008
ISBN1405178337, 9781405178334
Lengte272 pagina's
  
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