Landscapes of Clearance

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Landscapes of Clearance investigates areas from which inhabitants have been removed—whether for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, voluntarily or forcibly. Drawing from examples across five continents and spanning from prehistoric to modern post-colonial periods, it explores how such clearances impact communities and transform landscapes into sites of conflict and cultural significance.

The book also highlights acts of resistance and revitalisation, illustrating how landscapes are deeply tied to identity, ideology, and the social fabric of nations and groups. This volume is sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.
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This scholarly work will appeal to readers interested in history, archaeology, social sciences, and studies of displacement and cultural identity. It is particularly suited for academics, students, and professionals focused on historical and contemporary issues of population movements and landscape transformations.

This volume examines ancient landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

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This volume examines landscapes that have been cleared of inhabitants—for economic, environmental, or socio-political reasons, by choice or by force—and the social impacts of clearance on their populations.

Using cases from five continents, and ranging from prehistoric, through colonial and post-colonial times, the contributors show landscapes as meaningful points of contestation when populations abandon them or are exiled from them.

Acts of resistance and revitalization are also explored, demonstrating the social and political meaning of specific landscapes to individuals, groups, and nations, and how they help shape cultural identity and ideology.

Landscapes of Clearance is sponsored by the World Archaeological Congress.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598742664

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 July 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Contributors:

Edited by Angele Smith
Edited by Amy Gazin-Schwartz

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 222

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About the Author

Dr. Angele Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her research focuses on landscapes, place, the construction and negotiation of cultural identities, and the politics of representation, and bridges many sub-disciplines including: cultural anthropology, ethnohistory and historical archaeology. Her current ongoing work in Ireland, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, explores the articulation and negotiation of place and identity among communities of Nigerian asylum seekers. Amy Gazin-Schwartz is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Assumption College in Massachusetts and, with Olivia Lelong, co-director of the Strathnaver Province Archaeology Project in Scotland. She has interests in the archaeology of rural settlement and life and in the intersections between folklore and archaeology. She has done archaeological fieldwork on the island of Raasay, Scotland with the Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists, and in other parts of Great Britain and the northeastern US. She is co-editor (with Cornelius Holtorf) of Archaeology and Folklore (Routledge 1999)