The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape - Shaping Your Landscape

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Layton (Editor), Peter Ucko (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.1998
• EAN: 9780415117678
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11767-8
• No. of pages: 526
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 948 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)