Culture, Landscape, and the Environment The Linacre Lectures 1997

by Flint, Kate; Morphy, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780198233787
• ISBN10: 0198233787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The environment we inhabit is inseparable from culture. The contributors to this volume move through time and space - from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from Aboriginal Australia to the industrial heart of Britain - to compare the ways in which the environment is constructedin different ways across cultures. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, bringing together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, historians, and literary scholars to provide challenging perspectives on the ways in which culture influences human conceptions of landscape andthe environment. The essays explore the interrelationship between values and emotions associated with 'landscape', and the economic practices that help to shape the physical and social environments in which people live. The book provides powerful evidence of the role of culture in shaping ourunderstanding of the material world.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
List of Figures	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Howard Morphy
Kate Flint
`In England's Green and Pleasant Land': The English Enlightenment and the Environment	15	(29)
Roy Porter
Environments Within: An Ethnographic Commentary on Scale	44	(28)
Marilyn Strathern
Ways of Placemaking	72	(39)
Fred R. Myers
Landscapes with People	111	(20)
Barry Cunliffe
The French Nineteenth-century Landscape	131	(18)
John House
Technology and Text: Glass Consciousness and Nineteenth-century Culture	149	(27)
Isobel Armstrong
Our Animal Environment	176	(21)
Harriet Ritvo
Environment as Heritage	197	(22)
David Lowenthal
Index	219