Featured title from EASA’s publisher, Berghahn books
LANDSCAPES BEYOND LAND. Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives. Edited by Arnar Árnason, Nicolas Ellison, Jo Vergunst and Andrew Whitehouse, Volume 19, EASA Series from Berghahn Books, www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=ArnasonLandscapes
The main theoretical aim of the book, to move beyond a dichotomy between experience and structure in the anthropological study of landscape, is important and makes a lot of sense in relation to the existing literature on the topic… [T]his new collection is timely,…exceptionally rich and interesting and clearly demonstrate that anthropological thinking on landscape is alive and well. Paola Fillipucci, Cambridge University
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.
