The Archaeology Of Space And Place In The West
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Author | : Setha M. Low |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2003-02-04 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780631228776 |
Over the last two decades anthropologists have drawn on insights from ethnographic inquiry to challenge accepted definitions and ideas of space and place. Their efforts have led to an understanding that both the conceptual and material dimensions of space as well as of built forms and landscape characteristics are central to the production (and reproduction) of social life. The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture is an unprecedented collection of key articles presented explicitly for students and researchers in anthropology, environmental psychology, sociology, architecture, geography, and urban planning. The volume includes an introduction that synthesizes existing literature, highlights core issues, and maps potential directions for future research.
Author | : Sarah Parcak |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1250198291 |
Winner of Archaeological Institute of America's Felicia A. Holton Book Award • Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Science • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2019 • A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2019 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 • A Science News Best Book of 2019 • Nature's Top Ten Books of 2019 "A crash course in the amazing new science of space archaeology that only Sarah Parcak can give. This book will awaken the explorer in all of us." ?Chris Anderson, Head of TED National Geographic Explorer and TED Prize-winner Dr. Sarah Parcak gives readers a personal tour of the evolution, major discoveries, and future potential of the young field of satellite archaeology. From surprise advancements after the declassification of spy photography, to a new map of the mythical Egyptian city of Tanis, she shares her field’s biggest discoveries, revealing why space archaeology is not only exciting, but urgently essential to the preservation of the world’s ancient treasures. Parcak has worked in twelve countries and four continents, using multispectral and high-resolution satellite imagery to identify thousands of previously unknown settlements, roads, fortresses, palaces, tombs, and even potential pyramids. From there, her stories take us back in time and across borders, into the day-to-day lives of ancient humans whose traits and genes we share. And she shows us that if we heed the lessons of the past, we can shape a vibrant future. Includes Illustrations
Author | : Dushka Urem-Kotsou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-09-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781407353807 |
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Author | : University of Calgary. Archaeological Association. Conference |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780826340221 |
The archaeology of space and place is examined in this selection of papers from the 34th annual Chacmool Archaeological Conference.
Author | : James A. Delle |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1475791593 |
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be an academic topic that has come to be known as landscape archaeology. Landscape archaeology considers the planned spaces around living places. The topic is big, comprehensive, and new within historical archaeology. Its fundamen tal insight is that in the early modern and modern worlds everything within view could be made into money. Seeing occurs in space and from 1450, or a little before, everything that could be seen could, potentially, be measured. The measuring-and the accompanying culture of record ing called a scriptural economy-became a way of controlling people in space, for a profit. Dr. Delle thus explores maps, local philosophies of settlement, town dwelling, housing, and the actual condition of plantations and their buildings now, so as to describe coffee-Jamaica from 1790-1860.
Author | : Alan James Christian Mayne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2001-12-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780521779753 |
A 2001 investigation of the historical archaeology of urban slums, including eleven case studies.
Author | : Joshua D. Englehardt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2020-04-04 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 9780813066349 |
"This volume highlights the diversity and complexity of western Mexico's pre-Hispanic cultures and argues that the region was more similar than many researchers have believed to the rest of the Mesoamerican world"--
Author | : Florian Köhler |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2020-03-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789206375 |
Known as highly mobile cattle nomads, the Wodaabe in Niger are today increasingly engaged in a transformation process towards a more diversified livelihood based primarily on agro-pastoralism and urban work migration. This book examines recent transformations in spatial patterns, notably in the context of urban migration and in processes of sedentarization in rural proto-villages. The book analyses the consequences that the recent change entails for social group formation and collective identification, and how this impacts integration into wider society amid the structures of the modern nation state.
Author | : Christopher Tilley |
Publisher | : UCL Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2017-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1911307436 |
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a sensuous material form that is acted upon and in turn acts on people, the landscape as contested, and its relation to emotion. The landscape is discussed in relation to these themes as both ‘taskscape’ and ‘leisurescape’, and from the perspective of different user groups. First, those who manage the landscape and use it for work: conservationists, environmentalists, archaeologists, the Royal Marines, and quarrying interests. Second, those who use it in their leisure time: cyclists and horse riders, model aircraft flyers, walkers, people who fish there, and artists who are inspired by it. The book makes an innovative contribution to landscape studies and will appeal to all those interested in nature conservation, historic preservation, the politics of nature, the politics of identity, and an anthropology of Britain.
Author | : Kathryn Jasper |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2024-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501777610 |
In Bounded Wilderness, Kathryn Jasper focuses on the innovations undertaken at the hermitage of Fonte Avellana in central Italy during the eleventh century by its prior, Peter Damian (d. 1072). The congregation of Fonte Avellana experimented with reforming practices that led to new ways of managing property and relations among clergy, nobles, and the laity. Jasper charts how Damian's notion of monastic reform took advantage of the surrounding topography and geography to amplify the sensory aspects of ascetic experiences. By focusing on monastic landscapes and land ownership, Jasper demonstrates that reform extended beyond abstract ideas. Rather, reform circulated locally through monastic networks and addressed practical concerns such as property boundaries and rights over water, orchards, pastures, and mills. Putting new sources, both documentary and archaeological, into conversation with monastic charters and Damian's letters, Bounded Wilderness reveals the interrelationship of economic practices, religious traditions, and the natural environment in the idea and implementation of reform.