Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes

Herausgeber: Ray, Celeste; Fernández-Götz, Manuel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities, and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth's biophysical system with the history of humanity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780815347750
• ISBN-10: 0815347758
• Artikelnr.: 56722336

Autorenporträt

Celeste Ray is Professor of Environmental Arts and Humanities and Anthropology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of The Origins of Ireland's Holy Wells and Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, and is the editor of volumes considering Scottish identities or Southern Culture, including Transatlantic Scots, Southern Heritage on Display and Ethnicity (Volume Six of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture). Manuel Fernández-Götz is Reader in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. He has authored more than 150 publications on Iron Age societies and the Roman conquest, including the monographs Identity and Power: The Transformation of Iron Age Societies in Northeast Gaul (2014), and the edited volumes Eurasia at the Dawn of History (2016) and Conflict Archaeology: Materialities of Collective Violence from Prehistory to Late Antiquity (2018). He has directed fieldwork in Germany, Spain, Scotland and Croatia.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword; Historical Ecologies, Heterarchies and Transtemporal Landscapes:
Introductory Perspectives; SECTION ONE: Ideologies and Applications of
Historical Ecology and Heterarchy; Chapter 1: Dialectic in Historical
Ecology; Chapter 2: Historical Ecology and Longitudinal Research Strategies
around Lake Mývatn, Iceland; Chapter 3: Gender, Feminism, and Heterarchy;
Chapter 4: 'Can you hear me now?': Heterarchy as an Instrument and Outcome
of Collective Action in Iron Age and Medieval Europe; SECTION TWO:
Identifying Resilience; Chapter 5: Reconstructing African Landscape
Historical Ecologies: An Integrative Approach for Managing Biocultural
Heritage; Chapter 6: Resilience of Agrarian Land Use Practices in Burgundy,
France: Evolving Approaches to Historical Ecology; Chapter 7: Resilience,
Heterarchy, and the Native American Cultural Landscapes of the Yazoo Basin
and the Mississippi River Delta; SECTION THREE: Social, Settlement and
Territorial Dynamics of the European Iron Age; Chapter 8: Mapping British
and Irish Hillforts; Chapter 9: Humanizing the Western Cantabrian Mountains
in Northwestern Iberia: a Diachronic Perspective on the Exploitation of the
Uplands during Late Prehistory; Chapter 10: The End of Iron Age Societies
in Northwestern Iberia: Egalitarianism, Heterarchy and Hierarchy in
Contexts of Interaction; Chapter 11: Iron Age Societies at Work: Towns,
Kinship and Territory in Historical Analogy; SECTION FOUR: Ritual
Landscapes and Monumentality; Chapter 12: Empires of Stone, Politics of
Shadow: The Historical Ecology and Political Economy of Mortuary Monuments
in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD); Chapter 13: A Landscape of
Ancestors-Looking Back and Thinking Forward; Chapter 14: Civic-Ceremonial
Transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico; Chapter 15: Sacred Wells across
the Longue Durée; Afterword: Integrating Time and Space in Dynamic Systems