Landscapes of clearance
Subtitle: archaeological and anthropological perspectives
By: Angèle Smith, Amy Gazin-Schwartz, editors.
Contributors: Smith, Angèle; Gazin-Schwartz, Amy, 1952-
Series: One world archaeology series -- 57
Publisher: Left Coast Press; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781598742664
Subjects: Landscape archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology; Landscape changes; Landscape assessment; Cultural landscapes; Geographical perception
Description: "This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants—for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force-- and the social impacts of clearance on their populations. Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, through colonial and post-colonial times, the contributors show landscapes as meaningful points of contestation when populations abandon them or are exiled from them. Acts of resistance and revitalization are also explored, demonstrating the social and political meaning of specific landscapes to individuals, groups, and nations, and how they help shape cultural identity and ideology."--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Landscapes of clearance : archaeological and anthropological perspectives / Angèle Smith; title: Abandoned, avoided, expelled : the creation of 'empty' landscapes / Amy Gazin-Schwartz; title: Written off the map : cleared landscapes of medieval Ireland / Angèle P. Smith; title: The past is another country : archaeology in the Limpopo Province, South Africa / Kathryn Mathers & Neels Kruger; title: Driekopseiland rock engraving site, South Africa : a pre-colonial landscape lost and re-membered / David Morris; title: Constructing the wilderness and clearing the landscape : a legacy of colonialism in northern British Columbia / Brenda Guernsey; title: Ethno-archaeological study of clearance in Palestine / Juliana Nairouz; title: The domestication of landscape through naming and symbolic protection among the Batswapong peoples of eastern Botswana : fullness and emptiness of landscapes in the eyes of the beholder / Phillip Segadika; title: Enclosing the spirit / Peter Read; title: New places for old : the re-inhabitation of cleared landscapes in northern Scotland / Olivia Lelong; title: The devonshires held this trench, they hold it still : cultural landscape of sacrifice, the problem of the sacred ground of the Great War 1914-1918 / Jon Price; title: Archaeological taxonomy, Native Americans, and scientific landscapes of clearance : a case study from northeastern Iowa / Larry J. Zimmerman & Dawn Makes Strong Move.