Landscape, Memory and History
Anthropological Perspectives
Contributors from North America, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and Europe explore a wide variety of case studies that includes seascapes in Jamaica; the Solomon Islands; the forests of Madagascar; Aboriginal and European notions of landscape in Australia; place and identity in 19th century maps and the bogs of Ireland; contemporary concerns over changing landscapes in Papua New Guinea; and representations of landscape and history in the poetry of the Scottish Borders.
Pamela J. Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her books include Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2005) and Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2003).
Dr Andrew Strathern is Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of several books, including, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours and Gossip (CUP, 2004), Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2005) and Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2003).
2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders by John Gray
3. Ceide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape by Stuart McLean
4. Landscape Representations: Place and Identity in the Nineteenth Century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland by Angele Smith
5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar by Janice Harper
6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape by Veronica Strang
7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the
East Kimberly in North-West Australia by Ruth Lane
8. Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in
Highlands New Guinea by Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland
9. Island Builders: Landscape and Historicity among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands by Pei-yi Guo
10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica by James G. Carrier
Epilogue by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
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