Meaning and identity in a Greek landscape : an archaeological ethnography / Hamish Forbes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forbes, Hamish Alexander.

Contributor:

William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Archaeology and history.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Landscape archaeology.

Methana Peninsula (Greece)--History.

Methana Peninsula (Greece).

Methana Peninsula (Greece)--Antiquities.

Methana Peninsula (Greece)--Social life and customs.

Landscape archaeology--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Archaeology and history--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Ethnology--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

An interdisciplinary study exploring how Greek villagers understood and reacted to their landscapes.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Landscape Studies: From Frame-and-Tame to Visceral Feeling

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 from within.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-432) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

ISBN:

9780511720284

0511720289

Publisher Number:

99980806744

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.