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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forbes, Hamish Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape archaeology--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Landscape archaeology.

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

Excavations (Archaeology).

Archaeology and history--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Archaeology and history.

Ethnology--Greece--Methana Peninsula.

Ethnology.

Methana Peninsula (Greece)--History.

Methana Peninsula (Greece).

Methana Peninsula (Greece)--Antiquities.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 438 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Meaning & Identity in a Greek Landscape

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study, Hamish Forbes explores how Greek villagers have understood and reacted to their landscapes over the centuries, from the late medieval period to the present. Analyzing how they have seen themselves belonging to their local communities and within both local and wider landscapes, Forbes examines how these aspects of belonging have informed each other. Forbes also illuminates cross-disciplinary interests in memory and the importance of monuments. Based on data gathered over 25 years, Forbes' study combines the rich detail of ethnographic field work with historical and archaeological time-depth, showing how landscapes have important meaning beyond the religious sphere in terms of kinship, ideas about the past, and in their role as productive assets.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

ISBN:

9780511720284

0511720289

Publisher Number:

heb40181 hdl