Tilley C. A phenomenology of landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments

Oxford: Berg, 1997 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1859730760; ISBN13: 978-1859730768.Offers a new approach to landscape perception. 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. A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery. Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology, anthropology and human geography.Landscape - Theoretical and Contemporary PerspectivesSpace, Place, Landscape and Perception: Pheuomeuological PerspectivesIntroduction: Spatial Science to Humanized Space
A Phenomenological Perspective
Space and Place
Locales. Social Action
The Politics of Space
Landscape and the Scape of Praxis
Powers of Place
Time. Memorv and Movement
Paths. Inscriptions. Temporality
Spatial Stories. Landscape and the Arts of NarrativeThe Social Construction of Landscape in Small-Scale Societies: Structures of Meaning, Structures of PowerHunter-Fisher-Gatherers and Landscape
Subsistence Cultivators and the LandPrehistoric LandscapesIntroduction: Human Space and Prehistoric LandscapesAn Affinity with the Coast: Places and Monuments in South-west WalesLocales in the Earlier and Later Mesolithic
The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition'
Monument Construction and the Significance of PlaceEscarpments and Spurs: Places and Monuments in the Black MountainsMesolithic Locales
Flint Scatters and Occupational Continuity
Chambered Cairns and the Landscape
Orientation and Ritual Axis
Looking Out and Going In: Burials, Chambers and
TopographyRidges, Valleys and Monuments on the Chalk DownlandThe Mesolithic Landscape
Locales and the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition'
Earthen Long Barrows
Patterns of Intenisibility
Hambledon Hill
The Dorset Cursus
Walking the Cursus
The Empty Place - A Ritual PassageConclusion: Ideology and Place: Restructuring the Connections