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  • Ways of Walking

    Ethnography and Practice on Foot

    Edited by Jo Lee Vergunst, Tim Ingold ...
    Series series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
    Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'technique of the body'. This book presents studies of walking in a range of regional and cultural contexts, exploring the diversity of walking ... Read more

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  • Rural Transformations and Rural Policies in the US and UK

    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    This book examines the transformations of rural society and economy in the UK and US during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these trends and changes for community sustainability, quality of life and the environment. While both the UK and US are highly urbanised, rural people and communities continue to contribute to national identity, economic development and social ... Read more

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  • Landscapes Beyond Land

    Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

    Series Book 19 - EASA Series
    Land is embedded in a multitude of material and cultural contexts, through which the human experience of landscape emerges. Ethnographers, with their participative methodologies, long-term co-residence, and concern with the quotidian aspects of the places where they work, are well positioned to describe landscapes in this fullest of senses. The contributors explore how landscapes become known ... Read more

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  • Heritage as Community Research

    Legacies of Co-production

    Series series Connected Communities
    Heritage as Community Research explores the nature of contemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Putting forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvement with the past, undertaken with or by the communities for whom it is relevant, the book uses a diverse range of case studies, with many chapters co-written between academics and community ... Read more

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    by Paul O'Connor ...
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    Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. ... Read more

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  • Extending ecocriticism

    Crisis, collaboration and challenges in the environmental humanities

    Edited by Peter Barry, William Welstead ...
    This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative ... Read more

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  • Walking, Landscape and Environment

    Series series Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design
    Walking, Landscape and Environment explores walking as a method of research and practice in the humanities and creative arts, emerging from a recent surge of growth in urban and rural walking. This edited collection of essays from leading figures in the field presents an enquiry into, and a critique of, the methods and results of cutting-edge ‘walking research’. Walking negotiates the ... Read more

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  • Everywhen

    Australia and the Language of Deep History

    Series series New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies
    Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia’s Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broaden our understandings of the past and of historical practice. Indigenous embodied practices for ... Read more

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  • Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life

    Memory, Place and the Senses

    Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish, memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are the specific ... Read more

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  • Mundane Objects

    Materiality and Non-verbal Communication

    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
    This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in non-ritual and in ritual situations. Lemonnier shows that some objects, their physical properties and their ... Read more

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  • Archaeology After Interpretation

    Returning Materials to Archaeological Theory

    A new generation of archaeologists has thrown down a challenge to post-processual theory, arguing that characterizing material symbols as arbitrary overlooks the material character and significance of artifacts. This volume showcases the significant departure from previous symbolic approaches that is underway in the discipline. It brings together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge ... Read more

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