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Informationen zum Autor Hamish Forbes is associate professor of archaeology at the University of Nottingham. He has excavated in the USA! Ireland! Britain! and Greece and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Southern Argolid of Greece. He is the author of A Rough and Rocky Place: The Landscape and Settlement History of the Methana Peninsula! Greece. Klappentext In this interdisciplinary study! Hamish Forbes explores how Greek villagers have understood and reacted to their landscapes over the centuries! from the late medieval period to the present. Analyzing how they have seen themselves belonging to their local communities and within both local and wider landscapes! Forbes examines how these aspects of belonging have informed each other. Forbes also illuminates cross-disciplinary interests in memory and the importance of monuments. Based on data gathered over 25 years! Forbes' study combines the rich detail of ethnographic field work with historical and archaeological time-depth! showing how landscapes have important meaning beyond the religious sphere in terms of kinship! ideas about the past! and in their role as productive assets. Zusammenfassung In this study! Forbes explores how Greek villagers have understood and reacted to their landscapes over the centuries. Based on data gathered over 25 years! Forbes' study combines the rich detail of ethnographic field work with historical and archaeological time. Written for archaeologists! human geographers and historians of ancient Greece. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Landscape studies; 3. Historical background to the landscape of Methana; 4. Conducting fieldwork on Methana; 5. Kinship, marriage, and the transmission of names and property; 6. The productive landscape; 7. The historical landscape: memory, monumentality, and time-depth; 8. The kinship landscape; 9. The religious landscape; 10. Conclusions: a Greek landscape with relatives....
