TitleLandscape, memory and history [electronic resource] : anthropological perspectives / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
Imprint London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2003
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Descript vi, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Introduction / Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Iconic images: landscape and history in the local poetry of the Scottish borders / John Gray -- Cโeide Fields: natural histories of a buried landscape / Stuart McLean -- Landscape representation: place and identity in nineteenth-century ordnance survey maps of Ireland / Angแele 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


SUBJECT

  1. Landscape assessment
  2. Landscape changes
  3. Landscape -- Social aspects
  4. Geographical perception
  5. Electronic books.