Marking the Land (eBook, ePUB)

Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment
Redaktion: Lovis, William A; Whallon, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Marking the Land investigates physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers. When and why do hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale place markers on their landscape? When and why are such markers limited to simple, informational signs? When and why are markers invested with symbolic meaning? And when and why is such symbolic meaning raised to the level of sacred significance? With few answers to these questions currently available this book provides a systematic consideration of these aspects of hunter-gatherer adaptation and the varied environments within which they live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317361152
• Artikelnr.: 44862757

Autorenporträt

William Lovis, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, MSU Museum, Michigan State University Robert Whallon, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

Inhaltsangabe

1. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape "Marking": The
Multidimensional Construction of Meaning
William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon
Section I: The Northern Latitudes2. Initializing the Landscape: Chipewyan
Construction of Meaning in a Recently Occupied Environment
Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach
3. Places on the Blackfoot Homeland: Markers of Cosmology, Social
Relationships and History
Gerald A. Oetelaar
4. Markers in Space and Time: Reflections on the Nature of Place Names as
Events in the Inuit Approach to the Territory
Claudio Aporta
5. Inuksuk, Sled Shoe, Placename: Past Inuit Ethnogeographies
Peter J. Whitridge
6. Network Maintenance in Big Rough Spaces with Few People: The Labrador
Innu-Naskapi or Montagnais
William A. Lovis
Section II: The Southern Latitudes7. Physical and Linguistic Marking of the
Seri Landscape - Are They Connected?
Carolyn K. O'Meara
8. Bonescapes: Engaging People and Land with Animal Bones among South
American Tropical Foragers
Gustavo G. Politis
9. Unfolding Cultural Meanings: Wayfinding Practices Among the San of the
Central Kalahari
Akira Takada
10. Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the Landscape
Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
11. Signaling Presence: How Batek and Penan Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia
Mark the Landscape
Lye Tuck Po
Section III: Synthesis12. Marked Sacred Places of Hunter-Gatherer Bands
Robert Whallon
13. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape "Marking": The
Multidimensional Construction of Meaning
Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis