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Culture, Landscape, and the Environment:

The Linacre Lectures, 1997
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Kate Flint, Howard Morphy
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Oxford University Press, 2000 - 225 pages
The environment we inhabit is inseparable from culture. The contributors to this volume move through time and space - from prehistoric Europe to the Enlightenment, and from Aboriginal Australia to the industrial heart of Britain - to compare the ways in which the environment is constructedin different ways across cultures. The book transcends disciplinary boundaries, bringing together leading anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, historians, and literary scholars to provide challenging perspectives on the ways in which culture influences human conceptions of landscape andthe environment. The essays explore the interrelationship between values and emotions associated with 'landscape', and the economic practices that help to shape the physical and social environments in which people live. The book provides powerful evidence of the role of culture in shaping ourunderstanding of the material world.
  

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Page 136 - The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.
Page 35 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 207 - What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires?
Page 30 - O THE pleasure of the plains ! Happy nymphs and happy swains ! (Harmless, merry, free, and gay) Dance and sport the hours away. For us the zephyr blows, For us distils the dew, For us unfolds the rose, And flowers display their hue : For us the winters rain, For us the summers shine ; Spring swells for us the grain, And autumn bleeds the vine.
Page 26 - I add, that the veneration, wherewith men are imbued for what they call nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the empire of man over the inferior creatures of God...

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About the author (2000)

Kate Flint is professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of "The Victorians and the Visual Imagination" and "The Woman Reader, 1837-1914.

Howard Morphy is Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University and Honorary Curator of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.


Morgan Perkins is Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Art, Director of the Weaver Museum of Anthropology, and Director of the Museum Studies Program, at SUNY, Potsdam

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