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Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed

Autor Amita Sinha
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 noi 2020
Winner, 2022 J. B. Jackson Book Prize
Winner, 2022 Landscape Studies Initiative Award


Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes of India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centers around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian. The idea of cultural landscape can be seen in ancient practices such as circumambulation and immersion in bodies of water that sustain engagement with natural elements. Pilgrim towns, medieval forts, religious sites, and contemporary memorial parks are sites of memory where myth and history converge. Engaging with these spaces allows us to reconstruct collective memory and reclaim not only historic landscapes, but ways of seeing, making, and remembering. Cultural Landscapes of India makes the case for reclaiming iconic landscapes and rethinking conventional approaches to conservation that take into consideration performative landscape as heritage.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822946427
ISBN-10: 0822946424
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 50 color illustrations
Dimensiuni: 210 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Pittsburgh Press
Colecția University of Pittsburgh Press

Recenzii

“An excellent discussion about the importance of cultural landscapes in general. . . . Cultural Landscapes of India should be of long-lasting usefulness and will be among the works worth returning to when thinking about India and its many complexities.” —Landscape Architecture Magazine
“This fascinating book, aided by many color photographs, would be of interest to students of history, religion, cultural studies, and landscape architecture.” —CHOICE
“Amita Sinha interrogates the rubric of cultural landscapes as a dynamic, ever evolving one where myths and legends as well as history are propelled by social, cultural, and political imaginations. These critical arguments resonate more globally and impel us to see the simultaneous validity of conservation and environmentalism in the discussion of cultural landscapes across the world.” —Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University

Notă biografică

Amita Sinha taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign from 1989-2018 and was a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur in India. She is the author of Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings, editor of Landscape Perception, and co-editor of Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management.