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.

Anthropology, culture, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape assessment.

Landscape changes.

Landscapes--Social aspects.

Landscapes.

Geographical perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

American, Australian and British scholars examine the significance of the use of landscape for studies of identity.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction ; 2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders ; 3. Céide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape ; 4. Landscape Representation: Place and Identity in Nineteenth- century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland ; 5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar ; 6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape ; 7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the East Kimberly in North- West Australia

8. Co- present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in Highlands New Guinea 9. 'Island Builders': Landscape and Historicity Among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands ; 10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica ; Epilogue ; Notes on Contributors ; Index; Aboriginal mobility; 143; and hunting areas 145; and land rights 146; and the Ord Irrigation Scheme 156; in the 1990's 145-6; Abu-Lughod, Lila 37; Adorno, Theodor; 59-60; 61; 63; agalo 196; Agamben, Giorgio 6; Age of Improvement; 234; 235; alder tree 80

Alexander I [of Scotland] 22 Amazon; 193; 199; 200; Ambodiaviavy 97; ancestors; 197; 198; 202; 203; 204; 206; ancestral signs; 195; 196; Andrianapoinimerina; 98; 99; Anglican Mission; 112; 113; 119; Anglo-Protestant gentry; 76; 77; 83; 85; archaeology; and Iron Age findings in bogs 53; excavation of Céide Fields 49-50; Argyle Station; 143; 144; artificial islets; 189; construction of 190; construction of 206; as cultural markers; 192; and identity 204; and supernatural power 196; kinds of 195

Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame 120; 121; 130; Austronesians; 192; 199; Ayrshire 234; Ballard, Chris 231; Ballymote 76; Barlow, K. and D. Lipset 183; Bashõ, Matsuo 9; Basso, Keith 194; Bayly, B.A. 192; Bender, Barbara; 8; 9; 81; 194; Benjamin, Walter; 60; 61; birds of paradise; 5; 6; as plumes for headdresses 169-71; Bloch, Maurice 193; bog-corpses; 53-4; 66; bogs; 11; as archives 50; as colonial topography 56; as definitional puzzles 64-5; cleared by English settlers in Ireland 51; drainage of 51-2; peat bogs 47-8

peat-cutting in 58 bolyim house; 170; 172; 173; 179; and mond post 173; and mond post 179; Bord na Móna; 58; 62; 65; 67; Bowman, Frank; 108; 113; gravesite of 124; gravesite of 129; killing of, accounts of 114; killing of, accounts of 117; persons killed by 122; persons killed by 123; represents colonial oppression 123; Braudel, Fernand 50; Bruce, Robert 24; burial; 13-14; 124-6; 174; Burns, Robert 232; Burt, Ben 199; cairns 230; Carlyle, Thomas 53; Carrick, Earl of 23; Carroll, Lewis 9; Carrowkeel-Lough Arrow; 75; 76

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783715312

1783715316

9781849641654

184964165X

9780585488981

0585488983

OCLC:

53977635