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By Eric Hirsch, Michael O'Hanlon

ISBN-10: 0198280106

ISBN-13: 9780198280101

Panorama has lengthy had a submerged presence inside anthropology, either as a framing equipment which informs the best way the anthropologist brings his or her examine into 'view', and because the which means imputed by way of local community to their cultural and actual atmosphere. A primary objective of this quantity follows from those interconnected methods of contemplating panorama: the traditional, Western thought of 'landscape' can be used as efficient element of departure from which to discover analgous rules; neighborhood principles can in flip reflexively through used to interrogate the Western construct.The creation argues that panorama may be conceptualized as a cultural technique: a strategy situated among position and house, in and out, photo and illustration. within the chapters that keep on with, 9 famous anthropologists and an artwork historian exemplify this process, drawing on a various set of case experiences. those diversity from an research of Indian calendar paintings to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the production of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes specific to the Papua New Guinea rainforests. The anthropological views constructed listed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, artwork historians, and archaeologists may be no much less than anthropologists during this re-envisaging of the inspiration of panorama.

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Perhaps, again, they can be divided into two areas. First, this paradigm, almost without exception, works with a clear division between representation and 'reality', between the landscape image and its referent in the so-ailed real world. ) as unquestionable, unchallengeable: an objective stratum of reality preceding artistic or social interpretation. Thus, while the image is up for grabs from a whole spectrum of competing perspectives, the thing represented-the place or environment-is somehow rendered inviolable.

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The notion of sensual immersion in the sights and textures of nature can of course be interpreted in a variety of ways, for example in terms of contempor- Looking at tht Landscapt 37 ary definitions of poetic reverie or of a more philosophical tradition of Rousseauesque 'naturalism'. But crucially at this moment it fed off a powerful environmental language promoted and implemented in the Paris of the 1820s onwards. From official reports into sanitation, disease, crime, and prostitution (most notably Parent-Duchatelet's major study of 1836), to the schemes of utopian planners and popular sociologies, there was registered a deep perceptual anxiety about the urban environment.

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