CONTENTS
Introduction: The Cultural Agency of Gardens and Landscapes Michel Conan
Gardens as Anterooms to the Netherworld
The Place of the Sacred Grove (Alsos) in the Mantic Rituals of Greece: The Example of the Abos of Trophonios at Lebadeia (Boeotia)
Pierre Bonnechere
Gardens of Love and Meadows of the Beyond: Ritual Encounters with the Gods and Poetical Performances in Ancient Greece
Claude Calame
Religious and Lay Rituals in Japanese Gardens during the Heian Period (784-1185)
Michd yieillard-Baron
The Dance of Time, the Procession of Space at Mexico-Tenochtitlan's Desert Garden
Maria Elcna Bernal-Garda
A Voyage through Mythical Lands
Mythic and Sacred Gardens in Medieval Japan: Sacral Mediation in the Rokuonji and Saihoji Gardens
P. Richard Stanley-Baker
Braj: The Creation of Krishna's Landscape of Power and Pleasure and Its Sixteenth-Century Construction through the Pilgrimage of the Groves
Behula Shah Sacred Texts and Ritual Spaces in the RamLila of Ramnagar
Sarah Bonnemaison
The Production of Locality
Ancestral Rituals of Landscape Exploration and Appropriation among Indigenous Communities in Early Colonial Mexico
Angel Julian Garda-Zambrano
Africans Discover America: The Ritualization of Gardens, Landscapes, and Seascapes by Suriname Maroons
Richard Price
Horse Racing, Hunting, and Praying in the "Shady Walks and Sacred Woods" of Cetinale
Giorgio Galletti Devotional Landscape: Ecology and Orthodoxy in the Work of Marietta Pallis
David Matless and Laura Cameron
Contributors Index