Archaeologies of Landscape
Contemporary Perspectives
Social Archaeology
1. Auflage August 1999
308 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21106-8
John Wiley & Sons
This book offers new and diverse perspectives on the ideational qualities of past landscapes.
1. Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed, Conceptualized,
Ideational: A. Bernard Knapp and Wendy Ashmore.
Part I: Ethnographic and Historical Cases:.
2. Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From
Physical to Social: Paul S. C. Taçon.
3. Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater,
Virginia 1600-1750: Lisa Kealhofer.
4. Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley: Janet E.
Richards.
5. Buddhist Landscapes in East Asia: Gina L. Barnes.
6. Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient
Maya: James E. Brady and Wendy Ashmore.
Part II: Protohistoric / Ethnohistoric Cases:.
7. The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory,
and the Aesthetic of Alterity: Maarten van de Guchte.
8. The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the
Northern Rio Grande: James E. Snead and Robert W. Preucel.
Part III: Prehistoric Cases:.
9. Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds and Sacred
Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent: Jane E.
Buikstra and Douglas K. Charles.
10. Ideational and Industrial Landscape of Prehistoric Cyprus:
A. Bernard Knapp.
11. The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age: John C.
Barrett.
Part IV: Commentaries:.
12. Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized: Carole L.
Crumley.
13. Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies: Peter van
Dommelen.
Index.
Ideational: A. Bernard Knapp and Wendy Ashmore.
Part I: Ethnographic and Historical Cases:.
2. Identifying Ancient Sacred Landscapes in Australia: From
Physical to Social: Paul S. C. Taçon.
3. Creating Social Identity in the Landscape: Tidewater,
Virginia 1600-1750: Lisa Kealhofer.
4. Conceptual Landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley: Janet E.
Richards.
5. Buddhist Landscapes in East Asia: Gina L. Barnes.
6. Mountains, Caves, Water: Ideational Landscapes of the Ancient
Maya: James E. Brady and Wendy Ashmore.
Part II: Protohistoric / Ethnohistoric Cases:.
7. The Inca Cognition of Landscape: Archaeology, Ethnohistory,
and the Aesthetic of Alterity: Maarten van de Guchte.
8. The Ideology of Settlement: Ancestral Keres Landscapes in the
Northern Rio Grande: James E. Snead and Robert W. Preucel.
Part III: Prehistoric Cases:.
9. Centering the Ancestors: Cemeteries, Mounds and Sacred
Landscapes of the Ancient North American Midcontinent: Jane E.
Buikstra and Douglas K. Charles.
10. Ideational and Industrial Landscape of Prehistoric Cyprus:
A. Bernard Knapp.
11. The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age: John C.
Barrett.
Part IV: Commentaries:.
12. Sacred Landscapes: Constructed and Conceptualized: Carole L.
Crumley.
13. Exploring Everyday Places and Cosmologies: Peter van
Dommelen.
Index.
"Good insights for landscape historians and archaeologists."
Landscape History
"The varied contributions and stimulating interpretations
combine with a strong and thought-provoking introduction by the
editors and useful concluding commentaries on sacred landscapes and
everyday places and cosmologies to produce a well-structured book
of unusually powerful appeal." Landscapes
Landscape History
"The varied contributions and stimulating interpretations
combine with a strong and thought-provoking introduction by the
editors and useful concluding commentaries on sacred landscapes and
everyday places and cosmologies to produce a well-structured book
of unusually powerful appeal." Landscapes
Wendy Ashmore is a professor of Maya archaeology at the University of California, Riverside. She has been involved in excavations in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Her research focuses on the implications that spaces, settlement patterns, and gender can have on social organization. A. Bernard Knapp is the editor of Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, published by Wiley.