The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape

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ISBN: 9780415117678 | 0415117674
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Copyright: 2/12/1999

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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscapepresents extensively revised versions of twenty eight papers given at the third World Archaeological Congress held in New Delhi in 1994. This collection provides new and varied case studies of landscape and environment from five continents, and raises important policy issues concerning development and the management of heritage.

List of figures

(4)

List of tables

xix

(2)

List of contributors

xxi

(4)

Preface

xxv

1 Introduction: gazing on the landscape and encountering the environment

(20)

Robert Layton

Peter J. Ucko

Explanation

(1)

Understanding

(1)

The impact of postmodernism

(2)

Writing as oppression

(1)

Is there a world out there?

(3)

Expressions of culture in the environment

(1)

Human adaptation and transformation of the environment

(1)

Social strategies which co-ordinate or coerce action

(1)

Reading the landscape

(1)

Two problems for archaeology

(3)

Conclusions

(3)

Acknowledgements

(1)

References

(3)

2 Chronologies of landscape

(10)

John C. Barrett

Acknowledgements

(1)

References

(1)

3 Subverting the Western Gaze: mapping alternative worlds

(15)

Barbara Bender

Introduction

(3)

Western maps in western contexts

(2)

Western maps in contact situations

(4)

Indigenous maps

(1)

Conclusions

(1)

Notes

(1)

Acknowledgement

(1)

References

(3)

4 Social landscapes in Irish prehistory

(19)

Gabriel Cooney

Introduction

(1)

Landscapes from the outside: the extent of prehistoric settlement

(2)

People, pathways and places

(2)

A sense of place

(5)

The landscape as context of activity

(3)

Transforming the landscape

(2)

References

(4)

5 Small-scale communities and the landscape of Swaledale (North Yorkshire, UK)

(8)

Andrew Fleming

References

(1)

6 A historical interactive landscape in the heart of Europe: the case of Bohemia

(21)

Jaromir Benes

Marek Zvelebil

Theorising landscapes

(5)

Landscapes in action: the case of northern Bohemia

(11)

Enculturation of the landscape

(7)

Land division and field systems

(1)

Burials as territorial markers

(1)

Focal places in the landscape

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Note

(1)

Acknowledgements

(1)

References

(4)

7 Is landscape history possible? Or, how can we study the desertion of farms?

(10)

Mats Widgren

Introduction

(1)

Is landscape history possible?

(4)

Form versus process

(2)

Nature versus culture; ecological versus social theory

(1)

Is it possible to survive on a deserted farm?

(4)

Surveying

(1)

Agro-ecosystems over time

100

(1)

Social and tenurial development

101

(1)

Note

102

(1)

Acknowledgement

102

(1)

References

103

(1)

8 The historic environment, historic landscape, and space-time-action models in landscape archaeology

104

(15)

Timothy Darvill

Introduction

104

(1)

Archaeology and the landscape

105

(3)

Landscapes as `objects'

105

(1)

Landscapes as `subjects'

105

(1)

Critique of traditional archaeological approaches to landscape

106

(2)

Landscape as context

108

(3)

Space

108

(1)

Time

109

(1)

Social action

109

(1)

Time-space-action models in archaeology and beyond

109

(2)

Landscape and the social use of space: Stonehenge

111

(4)

Conclusions

115

(1)

Notes

116

(1)

References

117

(2)

9 Protecting time and space: understanding historic landscape for conservation in England

119

(16)

Graham Fairclough

Introduction

119

(1)

Philosophy and definition

120

(8)

Time

121

(5)

Space and scale

126

(1)

Articulation

127

(1)

Territorial inter-relationships

127

(1)

Regional or national patterning

128

(1)

Methods and practice

128

(5)

Conclusion

133

(1)

References

133

(2)

10 The role of caste hierarchy in the spatial organisation of a village landscape in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

135

(11)

Nilu Abeyaratne

References

144

(2)

11 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

146

(13)

Ashish Chadha

Introduction

146

(1)

The Sardar Dam and its impact

147

(2)

The emergence of popular protest movements

149

(1)

Are the tribals an indigenous group?

150

(3)

A changing relationship to the landscape

153

(2)

The dislocation, an experience in an alien landscape

155

(1)

An attitudinal problem

156

(2)

References

158

(1)

12 Perceiving `your' land: neighbourhood settlements and the Hauz-i Rani

159

(16)

Sunil Kumar

Introduction

159

(1)

The medievel hauz, a local community and the city of Delhi

160

(6)

Sports in the `Queen's Reservoir'

166

(6)

Conclusion: a diachronic study of landscapes and perceptions

172

(1)

Notes

173

(1)

References

173

(2)

13 In the shadow of New Delhi: understanding the landscape through village eyes

175

(14)

Nayanjot Lahiri

Upinder Singh

Introduction

175

(1)

The physical landscape and rural perceptions

176

(8)

The archaeological landscape and rural perceptions

184

(3)

Conclusion

187

(1)

Notes

187

(1)

Acknowledgements

187

(1)

References

188

(1)

14 Ancestors, place and people: social landscapes in Aboriginal Australia

189

(17)

Claire Smith

Introduction

189

(1)

The study area

190

(2)

Colonial history

192

(1)

Conceptions of place in northern Australia

193

(6)

Discussion

199

(3)

Notes

202

(1)

Acknowledgements

203

(1)

References

203

(3)

15 Competing perceptions of landscape in Kowanyama, North Queensland

206

(13)

Veronica Strang

Notes

217

(1)

References

217

(2)

16 The Alawa totemic landscape: ecology, religion and politics

219

(21)

Robert Layton

Four Alawa legends

220

(2)

Yargala (the male Plains Kangaroo)

220

(1)

Wadabir, the Black (Water) Goanna

221

(1)

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