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Landscape, memory and history : anthropological perspectives /
"How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the wo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, Virginia :
Pluto Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.