TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beardsley,John
ED  - Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture
ED  - Dumbarton Oaks
TI  - Cultural landscape heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa
SN  - 0884024105
AV  - SB469.35.A35 D86 2016
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
KW  - Cultural landscapes
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Landscape architecture
N1  - "Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub- Saharan Africa," held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 10-11, 2013."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-441) and index; Introduction: cultural landscape heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa; John Beardsley --; Design on the world : blackness and the exclusion of Sub-Saharan Africa from the "global" history of garden and landscape design; Grey Gundaker --; Cultural landscapes in Mali : historical antecedents and future trajectories; Charlotte Joy --; Great Zimbabwe as power-scape : how the past locates itself in contemporary Southern Africa; Innocent Pikirayi --; Landscape and architecture in the central highlands of Madagascar; Randall Bird --; Stories of stone : the transformation and reinvention of Swahili coast pillar tombs; Sandy Prita Meier --; Gardener kings : the formality of politics and palace forests among the Gbe kingdoms of West Africa; Neil L. Norman --; Places and paths of memory : archaeologies of East African pastoralist landscapes; Paul J. Lane --; Cultural capital and structural power in African landscapes : the social dynamics of sacred groves; Michael Sheridan --; Good bush, bad bush : representing our natures in historical southern Nigerian landscapes; Ikem Stanley Okoye --; A multiplex landscape : explorations of place and practice in Osun Grove, Nigeria; Akinwumi Ogundiran --; Rain, power, sovereignty, and the materiality of signs in southern Zimbabwe; Joost Fontein --; "Nature's regions" : the mobilization of cultural landscapes for conservation; Maano Ramutsindela --; From Table Mountain to Hoerikwaggo : re-imagining Africa's "first landscape"; Jeremy Foster
ER  -