Sacred gardens and landscapes : ritual and agency / edited by Michel Conan

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Object Details

Author
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (26th : 2002)
Conan, Michel
Subject
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XXVI, held at Dumbarton Oaks May 10-12, 2002"--Prelim. p.
Contents
Introduction: the cultural agency of gardens and landscapes / Michel Conan -- The place of the Sacred Grove (Alsos) in the Mantic rituals of Greece: the example of the Alsos of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boeotia) / Pierre Bonnechere -- Gardens of love and meadows of the beyond: ritual encounters with the gods and poetical performances in Ancient Greece / Claude Calame -- Religious and lay rituals in Japanese gardens during the Hein Period (784-1185) / Michel Vieillard-Baron -- The dance of time, the procession of space at Mexico-Tenochtitlan's desert garden / Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia -- Mythic and sacred gardens in medieval Japan: sacral mediation in the Rokuonji and Saihoji gardens / P. Richard Stanley-Baker -- Braj: the creation of Krishna's landscape of power and pleasure and its sixteenth-century construction through the pilgrimage of the groves / Behula Shah -- Sacred texts and ritual spaces in the RamLila of Rmnager / Sarah Bonnemaison -- Ancestral rituals of landscape exploration and appropriation among Indigenous communities in Early Colonial Mexico / Angel Julian Garcia-Zambrano -- Africans discover America: the ritualization of gardens, landscapes, and seascapes by Suriname maroons / Richard Price -- Horse racing, hunting, and praying in the "shady walks and sacred woods" of Cetanale / Giorgio Galletii -- Devotional landscape: ecology and orthodoxy in the work of Marietta Pallis / David Matless and Laura Cameron
2007
Type
Congresses
26
Physical description
314 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Gardens--Religious aspects
Landscapes--Religious aspects
Rites and ceremonies
Record ID
siris_sil_1007607
Metadata Usage (text)
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