Johnson Ideas of Landscape

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7833-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practiceof landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda forlandscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the establishedempirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporaryrelevance.
* * The first historical assessment of a critical period inarchaeology
* Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition --the ideological underpinnings of which come from EnglishRomanticism, via the influence of the "father of landscapehistory": W. G. Hoskins
* Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscapearchaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoreticaldiscontents of Romanticism
* Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology thatmaps more closely onto the established empirical strengths oflandscape study and has more contemporary relevance

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, Matthew

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Acknowledgements.
The Argument.
Preface: Thinking about Swaledale.
1. Introduction.
2. Lonely as a Cloud.
3. A Good Pair of Boots.
4. The Loss of Innocence.
5. Landscape Archaeology Today.
6. The Politics of Landscape.
7. Conclusion.
Glossary.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Johnson is Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and author of Behind the Castle Gate (2002), Archaeological Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1999), An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell, 1996), and Housing Culture (1993).