SACRED GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES. RITUAL AND AGENCY
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- EAN: 9780884023050
- ISBN: 978-0-88402-305-0
- Editorial: DUMBARTON OAKS
- Año de la edición: 2008
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 23 X 25 cm.
- Páginas: 306
- Materias:
mitólogia, iconografía y simbología
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.
