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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Pamela J.

Strathern, Andrew.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Demographic anthropology.

Landscapes--Social aspects.

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2003.

Summary:

How do People Perceive the Land Around them, and How is that Perception Changed by History? The contributors explore 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, they offer 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.

Contents:

2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders / John Gray 16

3. Ceide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape / Stuart McLean 47

4. Landscape Representation: Place and Identity in Nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland / Angele Smith 71

5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar / Janice Harper 89

6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape / Veronica Strang 108

7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia / Ruth Lane 136

8. Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in Highlands New Guinea / Michael O'Hanlon, Linda Frankland 166

9. 'Island Builders': Landscape and Historicity Among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands / Pei-yi Guo 189

10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica / James G. Carrier 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

074531967X

0745319661

OCLC:

51993883