Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place

Oxford, UK ; New York :: Berg, 2001. Octavo in tan photo-illus self-wraps; xvi, 372 p., 10 p. of plates: ill., maps; 24 cm; bibliographical references and index. As New / Mint (an unread copy); VERY FINE ; No remainder marks. Paperback. ISBN: 1859734677

Chapters entitled: The shadow of the sacred rock: contrasting discourses of place under the Acropolis -- Matter and memory in the landscapes of conflict: the Western Front 1914-1999 -- Contested landscapes in Inner Mongolia: walls and cairns -- Negotiating the river: cultural tributaries in Far North Queensland -- Crannogs: places of resistance in the contested landscapes of early modern Ireland -- Landscapes of punishment and resistance: a female convict settlement in Tasmania, Australia -- Cultural keepers, cultural brokers: the landscape of women and children - a case study of the town Dahab in South Sinai -- Whose new forest? Making place on the urban/rural fringe -- The political economy of landscape: conflict and value in a prehistoric landscape in the Republic of Ireland - ways of telling -- Bringing contemporary baggage to neolithic landscapes -- Landscape and commerce: creating contexts for the exercise of power -- Pilgrimage and politics in the desert of Rajasthan -- Landscapes of separation: reflections on the symbolism of by-pass roads in Palestine -- Rites of passage: travel and the materiality of vision at the Cape of Good Hope -- Landscapes, fear and land loss on the nineteenth-century South African colonial frontier -- Places of longing and belonging: memories of the group area proclamation of a South African fishing village -- Homes and exiles: Owambo women's literature -- Egypt: constructed exiles of the imagination -- Migration, exile and landscapes of the imagination -- Hunting down home: reflections on homeland and the search for identity in the Scottish diaspora. // Human territoriality -- Congresses. Landscape assessment -- Congresses. Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Congresses. Geographical perception -- Congresses. Territorialité humaine -- Congrès. Paysage -- Évaluation -- Congrès. Homme -- Influence de l'environnement -- Congrès. Perception géographique -- Congrès. Landschappen. Psychologische aspecten. Toerisme. anthropology