Description
Book Synopsis Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Trade Review “This thoughtful collection of essays on landscapes is largely inspired by the recent writings of Chris Tilley and Tim Ingold, whose own contributions bookend the other papers in the volume…What this volume does is open up some space for further imaginative wanderings and questions about the precise manner in which both residents and scholars are socially disciplined or culturally conditioned to read different landscapes.” · The Australian Journal of Anthropology
“The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well.” · Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University
Table of Contents List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
Introduction
Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse
Chapter 1. Walking the past in the present
Christopher Tilley
Chapter 2. ‘A painter’s eye is just a way of looking at the world’: botanic artist Roger Banks
Griet Scheldeman
Chapter 3. Encountering glaciers: Two centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America
Julie Cruikshank
Chapter 4. Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle of the Paraguayan Chaco
Suzanne Grant
Chapter 5. Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: the Arizona Hopi
Patrick Pérez
Chapter 6. Thalloo my vea: Narrating the landscapes of life in the Isle of Man
Sue Lewis
Chapter 7. Cairns in the landscape. Migrant stones and migrant stories in Scotland and its diaspora
Paul Basu
Chapter 8. Folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland’s holy wells
Celeste Ray
Chapter 9. How the land should be: Narrating progress on farms in Islay, Scotland
Andrew Whitehouse
Chapter 10. Visible relations and invisible realms: Speech, materiality and two Manggarai landscapes
Catherine Allerton
Chapter 11. The shape of the land
Tim Ingold
Bibliography
Index
