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Other title information: Other title information: Spatial Modelling and the Sociocultural World

Notes: Tiit Remm's PhD dissertation

Annotation: A dissertation about the use of space-related conceptions for studying the sociocultural world

Identifier: 9789949329281

Status: Available

Other title information: Politics and Perspectives

Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested

Identifier: 0854963731

Status: Available

Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece

Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.

Identifier: 3110129566

Status: Available

Other title information: Explorations in Semiotic Anthropology

Annotation: This is an overview of the semiotic connection with anthropology and an overview of what has been achieved in this field until now.

Identifier: 0899257267

Status: Available

Other title information: the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom

Annotation: The study of landscape - broadly defined as encompassing both rural and urban environments - has hithero concentrated upon the impact cultura groups have had upon its shaping and design. In The city as text : the politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

Identifier: 0521611962

Status: Available

Annotation: The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines across the humanities and social sciences to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image, 'a pictorial way of representing, structuring or symbolising surroundings'. By applying the art-historical method of iconography - interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts - to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on its ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing, social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is wide in terms of medium, period and place. It covers poetry and promotional literature, architectural design and urban ceremonial, maps and paintings. The historical periods discussed include sixteenth-century Italy, eighteenth-century England, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and twentieth-century Canada. The book is introduced by the editors' discussion of the meanings of landscape and of the iconographic method in the context of contemporary theoretical and methodological debates on culture and society

Identifier: 0521324378

Status: Available

Other title information: Geographical Essays

Annotation: The concern of these essays are concerned with the everyday life of a man on earth. We specify ordinary landscapes to indicate our primary interesr in that continuous surface which we can see all around us.

Identifier: 0195025369

Status: Available