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Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
edited by Michel Conan contributions by Behula Shah, Patrick R. Stanley-Baker, Michel Vieillard-Baron, Angel Julian Garcia Zambrano, Maria Elena Bernal-Garcia, Pierre Bonnechere, Sarah Bonnemaison, Claude Calame, Laura Cameron, Giorgio Galletti, David Matless and Richard Price
Harvard University Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-88402-305-0 Library of Congress Classification BL629.5.G37D86 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 203.5
ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller’s own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.
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Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet within the substantial library of garden literature, Sacred Gardens and Landscapes is among the few to focus on what the garden means in the spirit realm… Undeniably, Sacred Gardens and Landscapes is a magnificent compendium about a subject address by few writers: the mystical dimension of gardens.
-- Dorothea Bedigian Plant Science Bulletin