Envisioning Landscape : Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage

Description: Envisioning Landscape : Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage (2007, Hardcover) Condition:Like new unread hardcover in excellent condition. Pages are clean, crisp and not marred by notes or folds of any kind. SynopsisA primary characteristic of landscape archaeology is the diversity of its regional traditions, which reveals a range of methods, field locations, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. Drawing together perspectives from New York to Northern Ireland, from west Africa to the Mediterranean, and from central Europe to Zanzibar, this volume explores the many different ways in which landscapes are envisaged in world archaeology and world heritage. The volume demonstrates how landscape archaeologies can be used to highlight both the different material situations and the alternative political standpoints from which archaeologists work in the contemporary world.Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.,The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity - of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contributors to this volume take advantage of these many strands to investigate landscape archaeology in its multiple forms, focusing primarily on the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies. Using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid, these pieces capture the human significance of material objects in support of a more comprehensive, nuanced archaeology. Sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.,The common feature of landscape archaeology is its diversity of method, field location, disciplinary influences and contemporary voices. The contributors to this volume take advantage of these many strands to investigate landscape archaeology in its multiple forms, focusing primarily on the link to heritage, the impact on our understanding of temporality, and the situated theory that arises out of landscape studies. Using examples from New York to Northern Ireland, Africa to the Argolid, these pieces capture the human significance of material objects in support of a more comprehensive, nuanced archaeology.Product IdentifiersISBN-101598742817ISBN-139781598742817eBay Product ID (ePID)61077423Key DetailsNumber Of Pages304 pagesFormatHardcoverPublication Date2007-11-15LanguageEnglishPublisherRoutledgePublication Year2007Additional DetailsCopyright Date2007IllustratedYesDimensionsWeight20.8 OzHeight0.9 In.Width6 In.Length9 In.Target AudienceGroupCollege AudienceClassification MethodLCCN2007-022702LC Classification NumberCC75.E585 2007Dewey Decimal930.1Dewey Edition22ContributorsEdited byDan Hicks, Graham Fairclough, Laura McAtackneyTable Of ContentContents:Introduction: Landscapes as StandpointsThe Contemporary Politics of Landscape at the Long Kesh/Maze Prison Site, Northern IrelandFacing Many Ways: Approaches to the Archaeological Landscapes of the East African CoastLandscape Archaeology in Lower Manhattan: The Collect Pond as an Evolving Cultural Landmark in Early New York City Landscape, Communities and World Heritage: In Pursuit of the Local in the Tsodilo Hills, BotswanaCommon Culture: Time Depth and Landscape Character in European ArchaeologyLandscape Archaeology and 'Community Areas' in the Archaeology of Central EuropeHistorical Archaeologies of Landscape in Atlantic AfricaLandscape, Time, Topology: An Archaeological Account of the Southern Argolid, GreeceA Landscape of Ruins: Building Historic AnnapolisColonialism and Landscape: Power, Materiality and Scales of Analysis in Caribbean Historical ArchaeologyIndexAbout the AuthorsReviews"These rich and diverse papers examine landscape in archaeology from a variety of perspectives and in many different parts of the world. They include both valuable reviews of the history of landscape studies and thoughtful suggestions for directions for future research, especially through connections between landscape and time, identity, and politics. Envisioning Landscape will be of great interest to archaeologists, historians and geographers, and others concerned with the changing relationships between humans and the world they live inpast, present, and future." Peter S. Wells, University of Minnesota,"This new volume in the One World Archaeology series is a significant addition to the field of landscape archaeology. Case studies and sites range from the icon (Historic Annapolis, the Tsodilo Hills) to the new and challenging (the Maze Prison, Northern Island). Its signal contribution lies in engaging with and interrogating formulations of landscape, even as it clears a space for exciting new approaches. This should be considered an essential work for library collections and university reading lists." Nick Shepherd, University of Cape Town,Envisioning Landscape offers a range of perspectives that can feed into thinking through the process of doing archaeology and that cause us to rethink those categories of site, of object, and of landscape that we habitually apply. -Dr. John Carman, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

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