| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in archaeology ; 20 |
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Routledge studies in archaeology ; 20.
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| Contents |
Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape "Marking" : The Multidimensional Construction of Meaning / William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon -- Initializing the Landscape : Chipewyan Construction of Meaning in a Recently Occupied Environment / Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach -- Places on the Blackfoot Homeland : Markers of Cosmology, Social Relationships and History / Gerald A. Oetelaar -- Markers in Space and Time : Reflections on the Nature of Place Names as Events in the Inuit Approach to the Territory / Claudio Aporta -- Inuksuk, Sled Shoe, Placename : Past Inuit Ethnogeographies / Peter J. Whitridge -- Network Maintenance in Big Rough Spaces with Few People : The Labrador Innu-Naskapi or Montagnais / William A. Lovis -- Physical and Linguistic Marking of the Seri Landscape : Are They Connected? / Carolyn K. O'Meara -- Bonescapes : Engaging People and Land with Animal Bones among South American Tropical Foragers / Gustavo G. Politis -- Unfolding Cultural Meanings : Wayfinding Practices Among the San of the Central Kalahari / Akira Takada -- Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the Landscape / Petronella Vaarzon-Morel -- Signaling Presence : How Batek and Penan Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia Mark the Landscape / Lye Tuck Po -- Marked Sacred Places of Hunter-Gatherer Bands / Robert Whallon -- Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape "Marking" : The Multidimensional Construction of Meaning / Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis |
| Summary |
Marking the Land investigates how hunter-gatherers use physical landscape markers and environmental management to impose meaning on the spaces they occupy. The land is full of meaning for hunter-gatherers. Much of that meaning is inherent in natural phenomena, but some of it comes from modifications to the landscape that hunter-gatherers themselves make. Such alterations may be intentional or unintentional, temporary or permanent, and they can carry multiple layers of meaning, ranging from practical signs that provide guidance and information through to less direct indications of identity or abstract, highly symbolic signs of sacred or ceremonial significance. This volume investigates the conditions which determine the investment of time and effort in physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers, and the factors which determine the extent to which these modifications are symbolically charged. Considering hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale, Marking the Land provides a systematic consideration of this neglected aspect of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2020) |
| Subject |
Hunting and gathering societies -- Case studies
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Landscape archaeology -- Case studies
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric -- Case studies
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Human ecology -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Human ecology
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Hunting and gathering societies
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Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric
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Landscape archaeology
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lovis, William A., editor.
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Whallon, Robert, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317361152 |
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1317361156 |
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9781315668451 |
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1315668459 |
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9781317361169 |
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1317361164 |
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9781317361145 |
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1317361148 |
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