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

Duncan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521611962 ISBN 13: 9780521611961

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

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Descrizione del libro

James Duncan convincingly argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but that they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life. Using extensive archival sources, architectural analysis and mapping, the author reveals how the Kandyan landscape was designed to foster a certain hegemonic reading that spoke of the power, benevolence and legitimacy of the kings in their capital.

Contenuti

List of figures; Preface; Glossary of terms; A note on transliteration; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; Part II. Towards an Interpretive Frame: 2. Landscape as a signifying system; 3. The discursive field of Kandyan kingship; 4. Concretizing the Sakran discourse: from landscape of the gods to landscape of the hero-kings; 5. The Kandyan landscape, 1312–1815; Part III. The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kandy: 6. From discourse to landscape: a kingly reading; 7. From landscape to civic ritual: a kingly reading; 8. From landscape to discourse: contestatory readings and material interests; 9. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; List of references; Index.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521611962
• ISBN 13: 9780521611961
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 244
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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