ISBN:
9780415117678
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (538 p)
Series Statement:
One World Archaeology
Parallel Title:
Print version The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape : Shaping Your Landscape
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape〈/I〉 contributes to the development of theory in archaeology and anthropology, providing new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures ; List of tables ; List of contributors ; Preface; 1 Introduction: gazing on the landscape and encountering the environment; Explanation; Understanding; The impact of postmodernism ; Writing as oppression ; Is there a world out there? ; Expressions of culture in the environment ; Human adaptation and transformation of the environment ; Social strategies which co-ordinate or coerce action ; Reading the landscape ; Two problems for archaeology ; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; 2 Chronologies of landscape; Acknowledgements
Description / Table of Contents:
References3 Subverting the Western Gaze: mapping alternative worlds; Introduction; Western maps in western contexts ; Western maps in contact situations ; Indigenous maps ; Conclusions; Notes; Acknowledgement; References; 4 Social landscapes in Irish prehistory; Introduction; Landscapes from the outside: the extent of prehistoric settlement ; People, pathways and places ; A sense of place ; The landscape as context of activity ; Transforming the landscape ; References; 5 Small-scale communities and the landscape of Swaledale (North Yorkshire, UK); References
Description / Table of Contents:
6 A historical interactive landscape in the heart of Europe: the case of BohemiaTheorising landscapes ; Landscapes in action: the case of northern Bohemia ; Enculturation of the landscape ; Land division and field systems ; Burials as territorial markers ; Focal places in the landscape ; Conclusion; Note; Acknowledgements; References; 7 Is landscape history possible? Or, how can we study the desertion of farms?; Introduction; Is landscape history possible? ; Form versus process ; Nature versus culture; ecological versus social theory ; Is it possible to survive on a deserted farm?
Description / Table of Contents:
SurveyingAgro-ecosystems over time ; Social and tenurial development ; Note; Acknowledgement; References; 8 The historic environment, historic landscapes, and space-time-action models in landscape archaeology; Introduction; Archaeology and the landscape ; Landscapes as 'objects' ; Landscapes as 'subjects' ; Critique of traditional archaeological approaches to landscape ; Landscape as 'context' ; Space; Time; Social action ; Time-space-action models in archaeology and beyond ; Landscape and the social use of space: Stonehenge ; Conclusions; Notes; References
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Protecting time and space: understanding historic landscape for conservation in EnglandIntroduction; Philosophy and definition ; Time; Space and scale ; Articulation; Territorial inter-relationships ; Regional or national patterning ; Methods and practice ; Conclusion; References; 10 The role of caste hierarchy in the spatial organisation of a village landscape in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka; References; 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; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The Sardar Dam and its impact
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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