Conversations With Landscape (Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 14
1 Introduction: Starting a Conversation with Landscape......Page 16
2 Conversations with Ourselves in Metaphysical Experiences of Nature......Page 28
3The Limits of our “Conversations with Nature”......Page 42
4 Landscape as Conversation......Page 60
5 Time for Fluent Landscapes......Page 74
6 Grief Paves the Way......Page 94
7 Slipping into Landscape......Page 112
8 Landscape and Aesthetic Values: Not Only in the Eye of the Beholder......Page 124
9 The Sublime, Ugliness and “Terrible Beauty” in Icelandic Landscapes......Page 140
10 Transporting Nature: Landscape in Icelandic Urban Culture......Page 152
11 Ways of Addressing Nature in a Northern Context: Romantic Poet and Natural Scientist Jónas Hallgrímsson......Page 172
12 A Stroll through Landscapes of Sheep and Humans......Page 188
13 Sentience......Page 208
14 The Empty Wilderness: Seals and Animal Representation......Page 226
15 Aurora Landscapes: Affective Atmospheres of Light and Dark......Page 242
16 Epilogue......Page 256
Index......Page 268