Landscape, memory and history : anthropological perspectives /

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Imprint:London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2003.
Description:vi, 246 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4887345
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Other authors / contributors:Stewart, Pamela J.
Strathern, Andrew, 1939-
ISBN:074531967X
0745319661 (PBK.) £15.99
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1.. Introduction
  • 2.. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders
  • 3.. Ceide 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