Contingent countryside
Subtitle: settlement, economy, and land use in the southern Argolid since 1700
By: edited by Susan Buck Sutton ; contributors, Keith W. Adams ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sutton, Susan Buck.; Adams, Keith W.; Argolid Exploration Project.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Land use -- Greece -- Argolis Peninsula; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Greece -- Argolis Peninsula; Argolis Peninsula (Greece) -- Economic conditions; Argolis Peninsula (Greece) -- Social conditions
Description: "The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece's southern Argolid peninsula have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries.

The essays in the volume integrate ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological methodologies to yield an image of the southern Argolid as a contingent countryside whose boundaries, character, people, and external connections have been reconfigured time and again.".

"This volume, the fourth in a series of books deriving from the Argolid Exploration Project conducted by Stanford University, sets forth the material conditions of rural Greek life as mutable and negotiated in ways that complement archaeological interest in the repeated settlement fluctuations of the Greek past. It also exemplifies recent ethnographic shifts in conceiving other aspects of modern Greek life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A publication of the Argolid Exploration Project."