Landscape, Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives

Anthropologists from North America and the Antipodes present case studies of particular individuals, emplaced within a physical environment, who interact with others within their social environment through their remembered and imaginary experiences. Among the topics are landscape and history in the local poetry of the Scottish borders, memories of ancestry in the forests of Madagascar, routes and rootedness as sources of identity in Highlands New Guinea, and seascape and conflict in Jamaica. Distributed by Stylus. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR