| Description |
xxvi, 499 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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One world archaeology ; 30 |
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One world archaeology ; 30
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| Contents |
Introduction: gazing on the landscape and encountering the environment / Robert Layton and Peter J. Ucko -- Chronologies of landscape / John C. Barrett -- Subverting the western gaze: mapping alternative worlds / Barbara Bender -- Social landscapes in Irish prehistory / Gabriel Cooney -- Small-scale communities and the landscape of Swaledale (North Yorkshire, UK) / Andrew Fleming -- A historical interactive landscape in the heart of Europe: the case of Bohemia / Jaromir Benes and Marek Zvelebil -- Is landscape history possible? Or, how can we study the desertion of farms? / Mats Widgren -- The historic environment, historic landscapes, and space-time-action models in landscape archaeology / Timothy Darvill -- Protecting time and space: understanding historic landscape for conservation in England / Graham Fairclough |
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The perception of landscape amongst the Q'eqchi', a group of slash-and-burn farmers in the Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) / Almudena Hernando Gonzalo -- Self-determination in cultural resource management: indegenous peoples' interpretation of history and of places and landscapes / John Allison -- Traditional beliefs, sacred sites and rituals of sacrifice of the Nenets of the Gydan Peninsula in the modern context / Galina Kharyuchi and Lyudmila Lipatova -- Definition, ownership and conservation of indigenous landscapes at Salapwuk, Pohnpeik, Micronesia/ William S. Ayres and Rufino Mauricio -- Exploring the prehistory of hunter-gatherer attachments to place: an example from the Keep River area, Northern Territory, Australia / Richard Fullagar and Lesley Head -- Towards an archaeology of mimesis and rain-making in Namibian rock art / John Kinahan |
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The representation of Sámi cultural identity in the cultural landscapes of northern Sweden: the use and misuse of archaeological knowledge / Inga-Maria Mulk and Tim Bayliss-Smith -- Ancestors, forests and ancient settlements: Tandroy readings of the archaeological past / Mike Parker Pearson, Ramilisonina and Retsihisatse -- Living with stones: people and the landscape in Erromango, Vanuatu / David Roe and Jerry Taki -- Prehistoric human occupation in the Bass Strait region, southeast Australia: an Aboriginal and an archaeological perspective / Robin Sim and Darrell West -- Cognitive maps and narrative trails: fieldwork with the Tamu-mai (Gurung) of Nepal / Christopher Evans -- Archaeology and the evolution of cultural landscapes: towards an interdisciplinary research agenda / James McGlade |
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The role of caste hierarchy in the spatial organisation of a village landscape in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka / Nilu Abeyaratne -- The anatomy of dispossession: a study in the displacement of the tribals from their traditional landscape in the Narmada Valley due to the Sardar Sarovar Project / Ashish Chadha -- Perceiving 'your' land: neighbourhood settlements and the Hauz-i Rani / Sunil Kumar -- In the shadow of New Delhi: understanding the landscape through village eyes / Nayanjot Lahiri and Upinder Singh -- Ancestors, place and people: social landscapes in Aboriginal Australia / Claire Smith -- Competing perceptions of landscape in Kowanyama, North Queensland / Veronica Strang -- The Alawa totemic landscape: ecology, religion and politics / Robert Layton -- Managing the world: territorial negotiations among the Andoque people of the Colombian Amazon / Mónica Espinosa Arango and Fisi Andoque |
| Summary |
Various papers on the archaeological and anthropological construction and interpretation of landscape; papers by Claire Smith, Layton, Strang, Fullagar and Head, Sim and West annotated separately |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the third World Archaeological Congress, held in New Delhi, India, Dec. 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human geography.
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Landscape archaeology -- Congresses.
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Landscape assessment -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Layton, Robert, 1944-
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Ucko, Peter J.
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World Archaeological Congress (3rd : 1994 : New Delhi, India)
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| LC no. |
98020323 |
| ISBN |
0415117674 |
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