Amita Sinha 
Cultural Landscapes of India [PDF ebook] 
Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed

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Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In <i>Cultural Landscapes in India</i>, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influences landscapes. The book centers around imagining, enacting, and reclaiming landscapes as subjects and settings of living cultural heritage. Drawing on case studies from different regions of India, Sinha offers new interpretations of links between land and culture using different ways of seeing—transcendental, romantic, and utilitarian. The idea of cultural landscape can be seen in ancient practices such as circumambulation and immersion in bodies of water that sustain engagement with natural elements. Pilgrim towns, medieval forts, religious sites, and contemporary memorial parks are sites of memory where myth and history converge. Engaging with these spaces allows us to reconstruct collective memory and reclaim not only historic landscapes, but ways of seeing, making, and remembering. <i>Cultural Landscapes in India </i>makes the case for reclaiming iconic landscapes and rethinking conventional approaches to conservation that take into consideration performative landscape as heritage.

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<b>Amita Sinha </b>taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign from 1989-2018 and was a visiting professor in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur in India. She is the author of <i>Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings</i>, editor of <i>Landscape Perception</i>, and co-editor of <i>Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management</i>.<b></b>

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 272 ● ISBN 9780822987864 ● Dimensione 34.4 MB ● Casa editrice University of Pittsburgh Press ● Città PIttsburgh ● Paese US ● Pubblicato 2020 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 7643735 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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