Matthew Johnson

Ideas of Landscape (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ideas of Landscape discusses the current theory and practice of landscape archaeology and offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance. * The first historical assessment of a critical period in archaeology * Takes as its focus the so-called English landscape tradition -- the ideological underpinnings of which come from English Romanticism, via the influence of the "father of landscape history": W. G. Hoskins * Argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of Romanticism * Offers an alternative agenda for landscape archaeology that maps more closely onto the established empirical strengths of landscape study and has more contemporary relevance

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405178334
• Artikelnr.: 38281811

Autorenporträt

Matthew Johnson is Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton, and author of Behind the Castle Gate (2002), Archaeological Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1999), An Archaeology of Capitalism (Blackwell, 1996), and Housing Culture (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
Acknowledgements.
The Argument.
Preface: Thinking about Swaledale.
1. Introduction.
2. Lonely as a Cloud.
3. A Good Pair of Boots.
4. The Loss of Innocence.
5. Landscape Archaeology Today.
6. The Politics of Landscape.
7. Conclusion.
Glossary.
References.
Index

Rezensionen

"I have always found Johnson's work ... extremelyinviting, engaging and thoughtful. Ideas of Landscape is noexception." (Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2008)

"One might suggest that in this excellent work, Johnsonhas written an archaeology of knowledge concerning landscapestudies. A glossary and illustrations add meaningfully to a work ofmuch industry ... Highly recommended."(Choice)

"Ideas of Landscape is a toweringcontribution--shall we say, a high vantage point from which onecan
survey a scholarly landscape?" (Canadian Journal ofArchaeology)
"I read Matthew Johnson's Ideas of Landscape (Blackwell)with intense interest. It discusses the theory and practice oflandscape archaeology and the Romantic English landscape tradition,boldly taking on received opinion about figures such as Wordsworthand WG Hoskins, and making us think hard about what we can knowabout the past, why we want to know it, and how we may be misledabout it. It's an original, informative, and well-argued work,accessible to the general reader, and both worrying andilluminating."
-Margaret Drabble, Times Literary Supplement

"Ideas of Landscape is a challenging and accessiblecontribution to an expanding theoretical and historical field.Mobilizing the English topographical tradition of scholarship,centred on the writings of W.G. Hoskins, the book positions acritical understanding of landscape, as both culturalrepresentation and physical reality, at the centre of the study ofthe past and its meanings in the present."
-Stephen Daniels, Professor of Cultural Geography,University of Nottingham

"Matthew Johnson writes an archaeology of knowledge forlandscape studies. He enables us to know what to study next byknowing how the field was formed and the mistakes its practitionersmade. Both a deconstruction and a forecast, Johnson's volume rankswith the new books on race by Orser, on colonialism by Schrire, andwith his own foundational An Archaeology of Capitalism. Withthese books historical archaeology is mature."
-Mark P. Leone, Professor of Anthropology, University ofMaryland