Landscapes Beyond Land—Routes, Aesthetics, Narratives

Social anthropologists examine landscapes that involve relations between people, animals, and plants--between beings and ways of being--in a variety of locales. Their topics include walking the past in the present, two centuries of stories from the Saint Elias Mountains in northwestern North America, the Arizona Hopi, narrating the landscapes of life in the Isle of Man, folk liturgies and narratives of Ireland's holy wells, and the shape of the land. The 11 papers are from a series of three two-day seminars. They are not indexed. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Andrew Whitehouse is a Teaching Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen.