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050 00 $aSB470.7$b.G37 2007
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245 00 $aGardens and cultural change :$ba Pan-American perspective /$cedited by Michel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bDumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ;$a[Cambridge, Mass.] :$bDistributed by Harvard University Press,$c2007.
300 $a110 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aA colloquium held at Dumbarton Oaks, October 24-26, 2003.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Gardens and the Construction of Cultures in the Americas /$rMichel Conan and Jeffrey Quilter -- $tThe Chinampas of the Valley of Mexico /$rSaul Alcantara Onofre -- $tGardens in the African Diaspora: Forging a Creole Identity in the Caribbean and the U. S. /$rCatherine Benoit -- $tAn Ideological-Aesthetic Approach to Buenos Aires Public Parks and Plazas /$rSonia Berjman -- $tParks and Democracy in a Growing City: Palermo, Buenos Aires /$rDaniel Schavelzon -- $tThe Small Parks in New York City and the Civilizing Process of Immigrants at the Turn of the Twentieth Century /$rRachel Iannacone.
520 1 $a"Gardens contain time, culture, and nature. They are powerful symbolic spaces in which a society may project its ideals, to conjure or contrive cultural changes by rooting them in the flow of natural processes. Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural changes in Argentine, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens have been expressive of popular cultural inventions, but could also be attempts at political manipulations, and sometimes place of cultural resistance by subjugated people. Issues of identity and ideology, political coercion and resistance apply equally throughout the continent, inviting a renewed attention to gardens as places where cultural identities are forged and contested. The authors engage in different approaches and conflicting interpretations, revealing the existence of debates and issues among scholars at a remove from the supposed divide between English and Spanish cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGardens$xSymbolic aspects$zAmerica$vCongresses.
700 1 $aConan, Michel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88649046
700 1 $aQuilter, Jeffrey,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88100000
710 2 $aDumbarton Oaks.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061150
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