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Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018
Achievement Award The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular
reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural
traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South
Asian-in their capacity to self-organize, enact and reinvent
cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate
connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the
notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms
of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices
in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural
landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent
use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian
context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume
challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia
that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global
policy frameworks.
The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its
heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions
retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian-in
their capacity to self-organize, enact and reinvent cultural
memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection
with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of
cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of
heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in
the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural
landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent
use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian
context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume
challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia
that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global
policy frameworks.
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.
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