Rita Hermans
Rita Hermans is coordinator at CLUE+, the Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage at the VU University Amsterdam.
Landscape Biographies
Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts. But landscapes also shape their own life-histories at different timescales, transcending human life-cycles and generating their own temporalities and rhythms. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the co-scripting of landscapes and people figures prominently in the (auto-)biographical works of writers and attracts the interest of geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. This has even resulted in a new genre in landscape research, rapidly gaining in popularity, under the heading of 'landscape biography'.
In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
'this rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes' - Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB
In Landscape Biographies, twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory up to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, from Iceland to Portugal, and from England to Estonia. Among the authors are distinguished scholars like Gísli Pálsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Joshua Pollard, and Mark Gillings.
'this rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes' - Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB
Editors
Hans Renes
Hans Renes is historical geographer at Utrecht University and professor in Heritage and Planning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
- Title
- Landscape Biographies
- Subtitle
- Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes
- Editors
- Rita Hermans
- Jan Kolen
- Hans Renes
- ISBN
- 9789048517800
- Format
- eBook PDF
- Number of pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 07 - 05 - 2015
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048517800
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Open Access
- Download on Open Access Platform
- Series
- Landscape and Heritage Studies
- Partner
CLUE+ (The Interfaculty Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage)
- Category
- Diachronic
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 146,00
Jan Kolen & Johannes Renes: Landscape Biography: an Introduction
Edward Huijbens & Gisli Palsson: The Bog in Our Brain and Bowels
Jan Kolen: Biographies of Biotopes: from Manhattan to De Loowaard
Helen Sooväli-Sepping: Biographies of Landscape: Locals' Perceptions on Landscape Heritage
Michiel Purmer: Authorship and the Agrarian Landscape of Eerde
Hanneke Ronnes: The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape. Transformation without Reconstruction
Johannes Renes: Layered Landscapes: a Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research
David Koren: Shanghai: A Biography between Stone en Writing.
Jürgen Stoye: Piet Mondriaan 'Victory Boogiewoogie' 1942-44.
John de Jong: A Caleidoscopic Biography of a Neighbourhood: Witte Vrouwen in Utrecht
Wim Hupperetz: The Cultural Biography of a Street: Memory, Cultural Heritage, Historical Notions of the Visserstraat in Breda (1200-2000)
Svava Riesto: Earth and Water. A Biography of Sloping Carlsberg, Copenhagen
Felix van Veldhoven: Biography of Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Social Memory
Cornelius Holtorf: Gropar & Monument
Joshua Pollard and Mark Gillings: Avebury's Biography
Ludvig Paphmehl-Dufay: Megaliths
Edward Huijbens & Karl Benediktsson: Practising Highland Heterotopias: Automobility in the Interior of Iceland
Rob van der Laarse: Fatal Attraction. Nazi Landscapes and the Blind Spot of Holocaust Memory
Hans Renes and Jan Kolen: A Second life for Biographical Approaches to Landscape
Reviews and Features
"This rich book offers a way of creating fresh and engaging narratives of our landscapes."' - Graham Fairclough, Bulletin KNOB
