Gardens and Cultural Change - A Pan-American Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-88402-330-2
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 267 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Garden History

Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces onto which a society can project its ideals, either to conjure or contrive cultural change, rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology; political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Conan, Michel

Quilter, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Gartenbau

Über Autor(innen)

Conan, Michel
Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

Quilter, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Quilter is a New World archaeologist with expertise in Peru. He is past Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, and of Pre-Columbian Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. This is his sixth book on Peruvian archaeology.