num_pages: 314
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency
titlecomplete: Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection