City as Text - Couverture souple

Duncan

 
9780521611961: City as Text
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521611962 ISBN 13 : 9780521611961
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. He analyzes this dialectic relationship between landscape and the pursuit of power in the royal capital of Kandy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka during the early years of the nineteenth century and demonstrates how the Kandyan landscape was consciously produced to further the perceived interests of the Kandyan kings. Using extensive archival sources, architectural analysis and mapping, the author reveals how the landscape was designed to foster a certain hegemonic reading that spoke of the power, benevolence and legitimacy of the kings in their capital.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this book James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. He analyzes this dialectic relationship between landscape and the pursuit of power in the royal capital of Kandy in the central highlands of Sri Lanka during the early years of the nineteenth century and demonstrates how the Kandyan landscape was consciously produced to further the perceived interests of the Kandyan kings. Using extensive archival sources, architectural analysis and mapping, the author reveals how the landscape was designed to foster a certain hegemonic reading that spoke of the power, benevolence and legitimacy of the kings in their capital.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521611962
ISBN 13 
9780521611961
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
244
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521353052: The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  052135305X ISBN 13 :  9780521353052
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1990
Couverture rigide