Contested Landscapes (eBook, ePUB)

Movement, Exile and Place
Redaktion: Bender, Barbara; Winer, Margot

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Landscapes are not just backdrops to human action; people make them and are made by them. How people understand and engage with their material world depends upon particularities of time and place. These understandings are dynamic, variable, contradictory and open-ended.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000180954
• Artikelnr.: 59536015

Autorenporträt

Barbara Bender Professor in Heritage Anthropology,University College London Margot Winer Associate Professor, Saint Mary's College of California and Co-ordinator, SMC Study Abroad Program, University of Cape Town

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. The Shadow of the Sacred Rock: Contrasting Discourses of Place under the Acropolis
2. Matter and Memory in the Landscapes of Conflict: The Western Front 1914-1999
3. Contested Landscapes in Inner Mongolia: Walls and Cairns
4. Negotiating the River: Cultural Tributaries in Far North Queensland
5. Crannogs: Places of Resistance in the Contested Landscapes of Early Modern Ireland
6. Landscapes of Punishment and Resistance: A Female Convict Settlement in Tasmania
Australia
7. Cultural Keepers
Cultural Brokers: The Landscape of Women and Children - A Case Study of the Town Dahab in South Sinai
8. Whose New Forest? Making Place on the Urban/Rural Fringe
9. The Political Economy of Landscape: Conflict and Value in a Prehistoric Landscape in the Republic of Ireland - Ways of Telling
10. Bringing Contemporary Baggage to Neolithic Landscapes
Comments on Part I: Intersecting Landscapes
Responses to Julian Thomas's Comments
11. Landscape and Commerce: Creating Contexts for the Exercise of Power
12. Pilgrimage and Politics in the Desert of Rajasthan
13. Landscapes of Separation: Reflections on the Symbolism of By-pass Roads in Palestine
14. Rites of Passage: Travel and the Materiality of Vision at the Cape of Good Hope
15. Landscapes
Fear and Land Loss on the Nineteenth-Century South African Colonial Frontier
16. Places of Longing and Belonging: Memories of the Group Area Proclamation of a South African Fishing Village
17. Homes and Exiles: Owambo Women's Literature
18. Egypt: Constructed Exiles of the Imagination
19. Migration
Exile and Landscapes of the Imagination
20. Hunting Down Home: Reflections on Homeland and the Search for Identity in the Scottish Diaspora
Comments on Part II: Far From Home
Responses to Nick Shepherd's Comments
Index