Can I read Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity : Creation, Manipulation, Transformation on EtoBox?

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity : Creation, Manipulation, Transformation by Ralph Häussler; Gian Franco Chiai is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity : Creation, Manipulation, Transformation about?

From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance

Who reads Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity : Creation, Manipulation, Transformation?

Author

Ralph Häussler; Gian Franco Chiai

Publisher

Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors, LLC

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789253290

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Religion