TY - BOOK ID - 369823 TI - A phenomenology of landscape : places, paths and monuments. PY - 1994 SN - 9781859730768 9780854969197 1859730760 0854969195 PB - Oxford Berg DB - UniCat KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - Architecture KW - Landscape assessment KW - Megalithic monuments KW - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric KW - Wales KW - Dorset (England) KW - Antiquities KW - #SBIB:39A4 KW - Toegepaste antropologie KW - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric. KW - Landscape assessment. KW - Geografie KW - Landschapskunde KW - Perceptie en Beleving. KW - Antiquities. KW - Cyclopean remains KW - Antiquities, Prehistoric KW - Monuments KW - Religion, Prehistoric KW - Prehistoric land settlement patterns KW - Assessment, Landscape KW - Environmental perception KW - Landscape evaluation KW - Landscape perception KW - Perception, Landscape KW - Human ecology KW - Land use KW - Landscape protection KW - Dorsetshire (England) KW - County of Dorset (England) KW - Dorseteschyre (England) KW - Megalithic monuments - Wales KW - Megalithic monuments - England - Dorset KW - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - Wales KW - Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric - England - Dorset KW - Wales - Antiquities KW - Dorset (England) - Antiquities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:369823 AB - Offers a new approach to landscape perception. This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it. 'A Phenomenology of Landscape' is unusual in that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments with a minimum of text and no interpretationand the academic text in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery. Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology, anthropology and human geography. ER -