Ideas of Landscape

✍ Scribed by Matthew Johnson

• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

IDEAS OF LANDSCAPE......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
The Argument......Page 14
Preface: Thinking about Swaledale......Page 15
1. Introduction......Page 25
2. Lonely as a Cloud......Page 42
3. A Good Pair of Boots......Page 58
4. The Loss of Innocence......Page 94
5. Landscape Archaeology Today......Page 143
6. The Politics of Landscape......Page 186
7. Conclusion......Page 217
Glossary......Page 227
References......Page 230
Index......Page 257

✦ Subjects

Науки о Земле;География;Гуманитарная география;