Signs of Place: A Visual Interpretation of Landscape

Rebecca Döhl and Julian Jansen van Rensburg (Eds.)
Reihe: Berlin Studies of the Ancient World. Vol. 69
Jahr: 2019
DOI: 10.17171/3-69
ISBN: 978-3-9820670-2-5
Shortlink: edition-topoi.org/books/details/1596

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Abstract

Throughout millenia people have created place from within space by using an array of different types of signs in a multitude of different environments. Signs that can give insights into the very different ways in which ancient people have interacted with their natural surroundings and how they included it into their social and ideological realms. Within this volume we focus on different implementations of the concept of signs and place and the broad fi eld of meanings, associations, and definitions these interrelated terms cover. In so doing, the papers in this volume explore how different kinds of visual signs were positioned within the physical and morphological features of the landscape; how the landscape was chosen or modified to accommodate them; what value or information these signs provided for the place in which they were created; and how they have been socially, culturally, and spiritually appropriated over time.

Citation

Rebecca Döhl and Julian Jansen van Rensburg (Eds.), Signs of Place: A Visual Interpretation of Landscape, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2019

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