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Stonehenge - Making Space (Paperback, First)
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Stonehenge - Making Space (Paperback, First)
Series: Materializing Culture
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This book is an imaginative exploration of a place that has
fascinated, intrigued and perplexed visitors for centuries. Instead
of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated site, the author sets the
stones within a wider landscape and explores how use and meaning
have changed from prehistoric times right through to the present.
Throughout the millennia, the Stonehenge landscape has been used
and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to
myths and stories. The author creatively explores how the landscape
has been appropriated and contested, and invokes the debates and
experiences of people who have very different and often conflicting
experiences of the same place. Today, heritage managers,
archaeologists, local people, free festivallers, and druids come to
the place with entirely different understandings and agendas. The
book demonstrates that the creation of spaces and places for people
to express divergent viewpoints is powerfully constrained by social
and political forces that allow some voices to be heard while
others are marginalized. With dialogues and illustrations that
range from the conventional to the cartoon strip, this multi-vocal
book not only presents a wide range of views in an innovative way,
but provides important new insights on how people shape and are
shaped by landscape.
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