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Ideas of Landscape

By Matthew Johnson

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
9781405101592, 1405101598, 9781405178334
LCC
DA600 .J64 2006
Open Library ID
OL3420190M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2880259 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
264\266
Topic
Geography
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Науки о Земле;География;Гуманитарная география

Description

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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