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Landesque capital : the historical ecology of enduring landscape modifications /
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chap...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Walnut Creek :
Left Coast Press,
2014.
©2014 |
| Colección: | New frontiers in historical ecology ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction. Landesque Capital: What is the Concept Good for? / Mats Widgren and N. Thomas Hakansson; 1. Economics and the Process of Making Farmland / William E. Doolittle; 2. Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications / Kathleen D. Morrison; 3. Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands / Tim Bayliss-Smith and Edvard Hviding; 4. World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital among the Ifugao, the Philippines / N. Thomas Hakansson.
- 5. Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000-1800 / Janken Myrdal6. "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden / Henrik Svensson; 7. The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study / Michael Sheridan; 8. The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life / Matthew I.J. Davies; 9. Irrigated Fields are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya / Wilhelm Ostberg.
- 10. Correlating Landesque Capital and Ethno-Political Integration in Pre-Columbian South America / Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen, and Ragnheiour Bogadottir11. From Terraces to Trees: Ancient and Historical Landscape Changes in Southern Peru / Gregory Zaro; 12. The Antithesis of Degraded Land: Toward a Greener Conceptualization of Landesque Capital / Lowe Borjeson; Postscript: The Future of Landesque Capital / Tim Bayliss-Smith; Index; About the Authors and Editors.