Landscape, memory and history: anthropological perspectives / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
2003, 1st Paperback Edition. London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Item #354255
ISBN: 0745319661
Physical description: vi, 246 pages: illustrations, maps. 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. Subjects: Landscape assessment.
Landscape changes.
Landscapes Social aspects. Geographical perception.
Price: €35.00