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Landscapes of Clearance Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives

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... Read more

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;