The Landscaping of Metaphor and Cultural Identity
Topographies of a Cornish Pastiche
©2011
Monographs
216 Pages
Summary
Perceptions of place and of landscape often clash. Based upon a decade of intermittent yet ongoing ethnographic research which explores the UK’s Cornish peninsula, this volume investigates the social construction of landscape identity from a diversity of conceptual perspectives influenced by contemporary anthropological theories as well as recent developments within the fields of visual and material culture studies.
Details
- Pages
- 216
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631611272
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Phenemenology Iconography Hermeneutics Landscape Theory
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 216 pp., 20 fig.