This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited,…mehr
This book is the first comprehensive, global treatment of landesque capital, a widespread concept used to understand anthropogenic landscapes that serve important economic, social, and ritual purposes. Spanning the disciplines of anthropology, human ecology, geography, archaeology, and history, chapters combine theoretical rigor with in-depth empirical studies of major landscape modifications from ancient to contemporary times. They assess not only degradation but also the social, political, and economic institutions and contexts that make sustainability possible. Offering tightly edited, original contributions from leading scholars, this book will have a lasting influence on the study long-term human-environment relations in the human and natural sciences.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction Mats Widgren N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 1 Economics and the Process of Making Farmland William E. Doolittle; Chapter 2 Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications Kathleen D. Morrison; Chapter 3 Taro Terraces Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands Tim Bayliss-Smith Edvard Hviding; Chapter 4 World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital Among the Ifugao the Philippines N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 5 Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China 1000-1800 Janken Myrdal; Chapter 6 "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden Henrik Svensson; Chapter 7 The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study Michael Sheridan; Chapter 8 The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life Matthew I. J. Davies; Chapter 9 Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet Kenya Wilhelm Östberg; Chapter 10 Alf Hornborg Love Eriksen Ragnheiður Bogadóttir; Chapter 11 Gregory Zaro; Chapter 12 Lowe Börjeson; postscript Postscript Tim Bayliss-Smith;
Introduction Mats Widgren N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 1 Economics and the Process of Making Farmland William E. Doolittle; Chapter 2 Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications Kathleen D. Morrison; Chapter 3 Taro Terraces Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands Tim Bayliss-Smith Edvard Hviding; Chapter 4 World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital Among the Ifugao the Philippines N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 5 Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China 1000-1800 Janken Myrdal; Chapter 6 "Stonescape": Farmers' Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden Henrik Svensson; Chapter 7 The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study Michael Sheridan; Chapter 8 The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life Matthew I. J. Davies; Chapter 9 Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet Kenya Wilhelm Östberg; Chapter 10 Alf Hornborg Love Eriksen Ragnheiður Bogadóttir; Chapter 11 Gregory Zaro; Chapter 12 Lowe Börjeson; postscript Postscript Tim Bayliss-Smith;
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