Landscape, memory and history : anthropological perspectives / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern.

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TextSeries: Anthropology, culture, and societyPublisher: London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (vi, 246 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

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9781849641654
184964165X
9780585488981
0585488983
9781783715312
1783715316

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Landscape, memory and history.DDC classification:

304.2 22

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GF90 .M364 2003eb

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LB 63000
LB 65000
LB 74000
RB 10844

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Contents:

Introduction / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Iconic images: landscape and history in the local poetry of the Scottish borders / John Gray -- Céide Fields: natural histories of a buried landscape / Stuart McLean -- Landscape representation: place and identity in nineteenth-century ordnance survey maps of Ireland / Angèle Smith -- Memories of ancestry in the forests of Madagasacar / Janice Harper -- Moon shadows: aboriginal and European heroes in an Australian landscape / Veronica Strang -- History, mobility and land use interests of aborigines and farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia / Ruth Lane -- Co-present landscapes: routes and rootedness as sources of identity in highlands New Guinea / Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland -- 'Island builders': landscape and historicity among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands / Pei-yi Guo -- Biography, ecology, political economy: seascape and conflict in Jamaica / James G. Carrier.

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Summary: "How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a readership across the social sciences. Contributors from North America, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Europe explore a wide variety of case studies that includes seascapes in Jamaica; the Solomon Islands; the forests of Madagascar; Aboriginal and European notions of landscape in Australia; place and identity in 19th century maps and the bogs of Ireland; contemporary concerns over changing landscapes in Papua New Guinea; and representations of landscape and history in the poetry of the Scottish Borders."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a readership across the social sciences. Contributors from North America, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Europe explore a wide variety of case studies that includes seascapes in Jamaica; the Solomon Islands; the forests of Madagascar; Aboriginal and European notions of landscape in Australia; place and identity in 19th century maps and the bogs of Ireland; contemporary concerns over changing landscapes in Papua New Guinea; and representations of landscape and history in the poetry of the Scottish Borders."-- Provided by publisher.

Pamela J. Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Dr Andrew Strathern is Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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