Landscape, Materiality and Heritage : An Object Biography

Tim Edensor

ISBN 10: 9811970297 / ISBN 13: 9789811970290

Published by Springer, 2022

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for asophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated.This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might beconceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Landscape, Materiality and Heritage : An Object Biography
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811970297
• ISBN 13: 9789811970290
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 14D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 328 grams

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Synopsis

This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in which the Barochan Cross has been moved, utilised, cared for, interpreted, encountered, sensed, copied and appropriated allows for a sophisticated yet highly accessible discussion about its changing relationships with the physical and conceptual landscapes in which it has been situated. This book thus expands the ways in which landscape might be conceptualised, revealing how artefacts can inform future critical thinking about heritage and bringing an important contribution to theories about material culture and landscape.

About the Author

Tim Edensor is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the Institute of Place Management, Manchester Metropolitan University.