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    Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency

    Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency


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    • Format: Trade Paperback
    • 306 pages
    • Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
    • Published: June 2007
    • ISBN-10: 0884023052
    • ISBN-13: 9780884023050

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    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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