Full Description
Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known primarily through movement and journeying rather than stasis. Working across four continents, they explain how landscapes are constituted and recollected in the stories people tell of their journeys through them, and how, in turn, these stories are embedded in landscaped forms.
Contents
List of figures Notes on contributors Preface Introduction Arnar Arnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse Chapter 1. Walking the past in the present Christopher Tilley Chapter 2. 'A painter's eye is just a way of looking at the world': botanic artist Roger Banks Griet Scheldeman Chapter 3. Encountering glaciers: Two centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains, Northwestern North America Julie Cruikshank Chapter 4. Fences, pathways, and a peripatetic sense of community: kinship and residence amongst the Nivacle of the Paraguayan Chaco Suzanne Grant Chapter 5. Elements of an Amerindian Landscape: the Arizona Hopi Patrick Perez Chapter 6. Thalloo my vea: Narrating the landscapes of life in the Isle of Man Sue Lewis Chapter 7. Cairns in the landscape. Migrant stones and migrant stories in Scotland and its diaspora Paul Basu Chapter 8. Folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland's holy wells Celeste Ray Chapter 9. How the land should be: Narrating progress on farms in Islay, Scotland Andrew Whitehouse Chapter 10. Visible relations and invisible realms: Speech, materiality and two Manggarai landscapes Catherine Allerton Chapter 11. The shape of the land Tim Ingold Bibliography Index
