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Cultural Landscapes of India - Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (Hardcover)
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Cultural Landscapes of India - Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (Hardcover)
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Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen
in time. In Cultural Landscapes in 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 in India makes the case for reclaiming iconic
landscapes and rethinking conventional approaches to conservation
that take into consideration performative landscape as heritage.
General
Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2021 |
Authors: |
Amita Sinha
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Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8229-4642-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
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LSN: |
0-8229-4642-4 |
Barcode: |
9780822946427 |
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