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082 _a712.5
_bCON
100 _aConan, Michel Ed.
245 _aSacred gardens and landscapes
_britual and agency
260 _aWashington, D.C.
_bDumbarton Oaks Research library and collection
_c2007
300 _a314p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
890 _aUnited States
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_aGRATIS
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