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Landscapes of Clearance Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives

Edited By Angele Smith, Amy Gazin-Schwartz Copyright 2008
    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge

    222 Pages
    by Routledge
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    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.Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress

    Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Landscapes of Clearance: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives, Angèle Smith; Chapter 2 Abandoned, Avoided, Expelled: The Creation of “Empty” Landscapes, Amy Gazin-Schwartz; Part 2 Colonial Tools of Clearance; Chapter 3 Written Off the Map: Cleared Landscapes of Medieval Ireland, Angèle Smith; Chapter 4 : Archaeology in the Limpopo Province, South Africa, Kathryn Mathers, Neels Kruger; Chapter 5 Driekopseiland Rock Engraving Site, South Africa: A Precolonial Landscape Lost and Re-membered, David Morris; Chapter 6 Constructing the Wilderness and Clearing the Landscape: A Legacy of Colonialism in Northern British Columbia, Brenda Guernsey; Part 3 Resistance and Revitalization; Chapter 7 Ethnoarchaeological Study of Clearance in Palestine, Juliana Nairouz; Chapter 8 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; Chapter 9 Enclosing the Spirit, Peter Read; Chapter 10 New Places for Old: The Reinhabitation of Cleared Landscapes in Northern Scotland, Olivia Lelong; Chapter 11 The Devonshires Held This Trench, They Hold It Still: Cultural Landscapes of Sacrifice and the Problem of the Sacred Ground of the Great War 1914–1918, Jon Price; Chapter 12 Archaeological Taxonomy, Native Americans, and Scientific Landscapes of Clearance: A Case Study from Northeastern Iowa, Larry J. Zimmerman, Dawn Makes Strong Move;

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    Smith, Angele; Gazin-Schwartz, Amy

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