Landscape, Memory and History

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, they offer a broad study that will appeal to a readership across the social sciences. 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.

ISBN 0745319661   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780745319667 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 386 Publisher Pluto Press   Published in London Imprint Pluto Press   Series editor Wilson, Richard (University of Sussex), Wilson, Richard (University of Sussex), Wilson, Richard (Uni Format Paperback   Series ISSN 1351-540 Publication date 16 May 2003   Series title Anthropology, Culture and Society Library of Congress GN33.5   Height (mm) 215 DEWEY 304.2   Width (mm) 135 DEWEY edition DC22   Spine width (mm) 18 Pages 256   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

1		Introduction by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern		1
2		Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders by John Gray		16
3		Ceide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape by Stuart McLean		47
4		Landscape Representation: Place and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland by Angele Smith		71
5		Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar by Janice Harper		89
6		Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape by Veronica Strang		108
7		History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia by Ruth Lane		136
8		Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in Highlands New Guinea by Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland		166
9		'Island Builders': Landscape and Historicity Among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands by Pei-yi Guo		189
10		Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica by James G. Carrier		210
		Epilogue by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart		229
		Notes on Contributors		237
		Index		240

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