Christopher Tilley

Broschiertes Buch

Body and Image

Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2

Beschreibung

Chris Tilley offers a kinaesthetic approach to understanding ancient landscapes, one that uses the full body and all the senses, through examples of rock art and megalithic architecture in Norway, Ireland, and Sweden.

Autor

Christopher Tilley is Professor of Material Culture in the Department of Anthropology, University College London. He has written and edited over twenty books on material culture and archaeology and is a founding editor of the Journal of Material Culture. He has conducted field research throughout much of Europe and in the South Pacific. He is currently co-director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and director of the East Devon Pebblebeds Project. He is presently completing an ethnography of gardens and gardening in England and Sweden as well as conducting archaeological field research. Some recent books include Metaphor and Material Culture (1999), The Materiality of Stone (2004), Handbook of Material Culture (ed., 2006), and Stone Worlds: Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (with B. Bender and S. Hamilton, 2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781598743142
• ISBN-10: 1598743147
• Artikelnr.: 23901683