Stonehenge : making space / Barbara Bender ; with Paul Aitken [and others].

Main entry:

Bender, Barbara.

Title & Author:

Stonehenge : making space / Barbara Bender ; with Paul Aitken [and others].

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1998.

Description:

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Materializing culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
Thinking about landscapes -- Prehistoric Stonehenge landscapes -- Dialogues 1: Prehistoric Stonehenge landscapes -- Contested landscapes: Medieval to present day -- Dialogues 2: Contested landscapes -- Another way of telling -- Dialogues 3: Another way of telling. Stonehenge and Avebury -- Dialogues 4: Other places, other ways of telling.

Summary:

Publisher description's: "This book is an imaginative exploration of a place that has fascinated, intrigued and perplexed visitors for centuries. Instead of seeing Stonehenge as an isolated site, the author sets the stones within a wider landscape and explores how use and meaning have changed from prehistoric times right through to the present. Throughout the millennia, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to myths and stories. The author creatively explores how the landscape has been appropriated and contested, and invokes the debates and experiences of people who have very different and often conflicting experiences of the same place. Today, heritage managers, archaeologists, local people, free festivallers, and druids come to the place with entirely different understandings and agendas. The book demonstrates that the creation of spaces and places for people to express divergent viewpoints is powerfully constrained by social and political forces that allow some voices to be heard while others are marginalized. With dialogues and illustrations that range from the conventional to the cartoon strip, this multi-vocal book not only presents a wide range of views in an innovative way, but provides important new insights on how people shape and are shaped by landscape." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/98217938-d.html.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

1859739032
9781859739037
1859739083 (pbk.)
9781859739082 (pbk.)

Subject:

Stonehenge
Megalithic monuments England Wiltshire.
Monuments mégalithiques Angleterre Wiltshire.
15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology.
Antiquities
Megalithic monuments
Archeologie.
Megalithic monuments Great Britain.
Mégalithes Angleterre (GB)
Stonehenge (England)
Wiltshire (England) Antiquities.
Stonehenge (Angleterre)
Wiltshire (Angleterre) Antiquités.
England Stonehenge
England Wiltshire
Stonehenge (GB ; site archéologique)

Added entries:

Materializing culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 197088
Call No.: ID DA142.B45; ID:98-B378
Status: Available

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