ISBN:
9781783715312
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (204 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Stewart, Pamela J Landscape, Memory and History : Anthropological Perspectives
DDC:
304.2
Abstract:
American, Australian and British scholars examine the significance of the use of landscape for studies of identity
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders -- 3. Céide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape -- 4. Landscape Representation: Place and Identity in Nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland -- 5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar -- 6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape -- 7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia -- 8. Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in Highlands New Guinea -- 9. 'Island Builders': Landscape and Historicity Among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands -- 10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica -- Epilogue -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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