The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape (eBook, PDF)

Shaping Your Landscape
Redaktion: Layton, Robert; Ucko, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, providing new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134828357
• Artikelnr.: 42686906

Autorenporträt

Professor Peter Ucko has combined a career in academic archaeology and anthropology with a commitment to addressing the political issues raised by the practice of archaeology and promotion of dialogue between Western and Third World Archaeology. He has organised a number of important conferences, including the first World Archaeological Congress in Southampton, 1986. He is Director of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Professor Layton has carried out research on social change and on rock art in Europe and Australia. He has appeared as an expert witness in several Aboriginal land claims. He edited two of the volumes arising from the first World Archaeological Congress in Southampton, 1986. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
1 Introduction: gazing on the landscape and encountering the environment
2 Chronologies of landscape
3 Subverting the Western Gaze: mapping alternative worlds
4 Social landsciapes in Irish prehistory
5 Small-scale communities and the landscape of Swaledale (North Yorkshire
UK)
6 A historical interactive landscape in the heart of Europe: the case of Bohemia
7 Is landscape history possible? Or
how can we study the desertion of farms?
8 The historic environment
historic landscapes
and space-time -action models in landscape archaeology
9 Protecting time and space: understanding historic landscape for conservation in England
10 The role of caste hierarchy in the spatial organisation of a village landscape in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka
11 The anatomy of dispossession: a study in the displacement of the tribals from their traditional landscape in the Narmada Valley due to the Sardar Sarovar Project
12 Perceiving 'your' land: neighbourhood settlements and the Hauz-i Rani
13 In the shadow of New Delhi: understanding the landscape through village eyes
14 Ancestors
place and people: social landscapes in Aboriginal Australia
15 Competing perceptions of landscape in Kowanyama
North Queensland
16 The Alawa totemic landscape: ecology
religion and politics
17 Managing the world: territorial negotiations among the Andoque people of the Colombian Amazon
18 The perception of landscape amongst the Q'eqchi'
a group of slash-and-burn farmers in the Alta Verapaz (Guatemala)
19 Self-determination in cultural resource management: indigenous peoples' interpretation of history and of places and landscapes
20 Traditional beliefs
sacred sites and rituals of sacrifice of the Nenets of the Gydan Peninsula in the modem context
21 Definition
ownership and conservation of indigenous landscapes at Salapwuk
Pohnpei
Micronesia
22 Exploring the prehistory of hunter-gatherer attachments to place: an example from the Keep River area
Northern Territory
Australia
23 Towards an archaeology of mimesis and rain-making in Namibian rock art
24 The representation of Sámi cultural identity in the cultural landscapes of northern Sweden: the use and misuse of archaeological knowledge
25 Ancestors
forests and ancient settlements: Tandroy readings of the archaeological past
26 Living with stones: people and the landscape in Erromango
Vanuatu
27 Prehistoric human occupation in the Bass Strait region
southeast Australia: an Aboriginal and an archaeological perspective
28 Cognitive maps and narrative trails: fieldwork with the Tamumai (Gurung) of Nepal
29 Archaeology and the evolution of cultural landscapes: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda
Note
References
Index