Landscapes in transition /
: "Published jointly by the Council for British Research in the Levant and Oxbow Books, Oxford,UK"-title page verso Papers from a workshop held in Jordan, Mar.26-30 2007 at the royal Society for the Conservation of the Nature's Wadi Faynan Eco-Lodge and at Wadi Mussa. : x, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781842174166
Landschaften und ihre Bilder in ägyptischen Texten des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. /
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"Originally presented as the author's thesis (Magister - Göttingen) under the title : Landschaften und ihre Bilder in der altägyptischen Kultur". :
viii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-169) and index. :
9783447058667 (pbk.)
3447058668 (pbk.) :
0340-6342 ;
Valuing landscape in classical antiquity : natural environment and cultural imagination /
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'Where am I?'. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value to their physical environment. 'Landscape' denotes this symbolic conception and use of terrain. It is a creation of human culture. In Valuing Landscape we explore different ways in which physical environments impacted on the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. In seventeen chapters with different disciplinary perspectives, we demonstrate the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004319714 :
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