A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments

A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments 

 (Explorations in Anthropology)
PDF | 224 pages | 16,5 Mb 

This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it.

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Islamic Monuments in Cairo : The Practical Guide

Islamic Monuments in Cairo : The Practical Guide

276 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity.

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L'architecture invisible

L'architecture invisible

de Georges Prat

" Etude des positions telluriques des monuments préhistoriques, antiques, médiévaux, religieux. Ils n'ont pas été construits au hasard. Il existe des réseaux, comme le réseau Hartman, certains négatifs, d'autres positifs."

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Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide

Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide

American University in Cairo Press | 2004-10-01 |276 pages | PDF | 13 MB

Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an uninterrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's spectacular heritage, nor trace its historical and architectural development with such clarity. The discovery of this historic core, first visually by nineteenth-century western artists then intellectually by twentieth-century Islamic art specialists, now - at the turn of the millennium - awaits the delight of the general visitor.

This new edition of a popular and handy guide continues to walk the visitor around two hundred of the city's most interesting Islamic monuments. It also keeps pace with recent developments with updated and revised material.

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A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments

A Phenomenology of Landscape : Places, Paths and Monuments

(Explorations in Anthropology)

Christopher Tilley,
Berg Publishers | January 1, 1997 | PDF | 224 pages | 16,5 Mb

This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focusing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and creating meaning in it.

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