Cultural landscape heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa

Körperschaft: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture Washington, D.C.)
Weitere Verfasser: Beardsley, John , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016.
Umfang/Format: vi, 478 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Schlagworte:
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: cultural landscape heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa /
  • John Beardsley
  • Design on the world : blackness and the exclusion of Sub-Saharan Africa from the "global" history of garden and landscape design /
  • Grey Gundaker
  • Cultural landscapes in Mali : historical antecedents and future trajectories /
  • Charlotte Joy
  • Great Zimbabwe as power-scape : how the past locates itself in contemporary Southern Africa /
  • Innocent Pikirayi
  • Landscape and architecture in the central highlands of Madagascar /
  • Randall Bird
  • Stories of stone : the transformation and reinvention of Swahili coast pillar tombs /
  • Sandy Prita Meier
  • Gardener kings : the formality of politics and palace forests among the Gbe kingdoms of West Africa /
  • Neil L. Norman
  • Places and paths of memory : archaeologies of East African pastoralist landscapes /
  • Paul J. Lane
  • Cultural capital and structural power in African landscapes : the social dynamics of sacred groves /
  • Michael Sheridan
  • Good bush, bad bush : representing our natures in historical southern Nigerian landscapes /
  • Ikem Stanley Okoye
  • A multiplex landscape : explorations of place and practice in Osun Grove, Nigeria /
  • Akinwumi Ogundiran
  • Rain, power, sovereignty, and the materiality of signs in southern Zimbabwe /
  • Joost Fontein
  • "Nature's regions" : the mobilization of cultural landscapes for conservation /
  • Maano Ramutsindela
  • From Table Mountain to Hoerikwaggo : re-imagining Africa's "first landscape" /
  • Jeremy Foster.