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The Spatial Factor in African History : The Relationship of the Social, Material, and Perceptual
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ISBN: 9004139133 9786610859603 1429427051 9047405625 1280859601 1433707578 9781429427050 9781433707575 9789004139138 9781280859601 6610859604 9789047405627 Year: 2005 Volume: 8 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL,

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The authors of this inter-disciplinary collection examine the role of space in six areas of West, Central and East Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They demonstrate the active quality of space and analyze the ways in which people have contested and shaped space, including responses to crises. In addition, a lengthy essay re-interprets tropical African history, 1800-1930, using spatial theory. Contributors look at how people have constructed mental maps, used discourse to organize territories, and perceived social landscapes. The studies employ a tri-level approach, one that moves from specific places to regions to macro-regional or transnational systems and back again. Authors draw upon written and oral sources to reconstruct the past and employ innovative mapping techniques to illustrate spatial dynamics.

The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space.
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ISBN: 0198278802 0198280106 9780198280101 9780198278801 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into 'view', and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of 'landscape' may be used as productive point of departure from which to explore analgous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively by used to interrogate the Western construct.The Introduction argues that landscape should be conceptualized as a cultural process: a process located between place and space, inside and outside, image and representation. In the chapters that follow, nine noted anthropologists and an art historian exemplify this approach, drawing on a diverse set of case studies. These range from an analysis of Indian calendar art to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the creation of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes particular to the Papua New Guinea rainforests. The anthropological perspectives developed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, art historians, and archaeologists will be no less interested than anthropologists in this re-envisaging of the notion of landscape.

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Landscape assessment --- Human geography --- Geographical perception --- Space perception --- Cognition and culture --- Cognition and culture. --- Geographical perception. --- Human geography. --- Landscape assessment. --- Space perception. --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Perceptie en Beleving. --- Anthropogéographie --- Assessment [Landscape ] --- Biogéographie humaine --- Cognitie en cultuur --- Cultural geography --- Distribution géographique de l'homme --- Environmental perception --- Environnement [Perception de l' ] --- Espace géographique --- Espace--Perception --- Evaluation du paysage --- Geografie [Menselijke ] --- Geografische waarnemingen --- Geographical distribution of man --- Geography [Cultural ] --- Geography [Human ] --- Geography [Social ] --- Homme -- Distribution géographique --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Landschapsevaluatie --- Maps [Mental ] --- Menselijke geografie --- Oecoumène --- Oekoumène --- Paysage [Perception du ] --- Paysage--Evaluation --- Perception [Landscape ] --- Perception de l'environnement --- Perception du paysage --- Perception géographique --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Représentation mentale de l'environnement --- Ruimteperceptie --- Ruimtewaarneming --- Spatial perception --- Écoumène --- Ékoumène --- Perception géographique --- Cognition et culture --- Géographie humaine --- Paysages --- Perception spatiale --- Evaluation --- #SBIB:316.334.5U13 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Assessment, Landscape --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: sociale aspecten van de ruimte, sociale ecologie --- Toegepaste antropologie

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