Economies and the Transformation of Landscape

Name: Economies and the Transformation of Landscape
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ISBN: 9780759111172

ISBN-10: 0759111170

ISBN-13: 9780759111172

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lisa Cliggett, Christopher A. Pool, Douglas James Bolender, George M. Crothers, David E. Doyel

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The theme of this volume is change, specifically the dynamic relationship between physical landscapes and economic practices. The contributors to Economies and the Transformation of Landscape consider the relationship between the environment and human activity-from different perspectives and with regard to varied timescales-to arrive at various understandings of economical ecological transformations and what they reveal about human culture. While each chapter offers detailed insights into particular cases, the volume as a whole challenges us to think broadly and reflexively about how human action affects the environment and how changes to the environment affect human action. Book jacket.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 12/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.11" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

?Christopher A. Pool is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky.



List of Figures and Tables



Introduction: Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes




Engineered Landscapes in Historical Frames



The Engineered Landscapes of Irrigation




Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons in the Andes




Household Labor and Landscape Transformation in Ancient Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico




Mining and Ranching on the Landscape of Southwestern New Mexico, 1850-2005




Transformations, Political Strategies, and Decision Making



From Foraging to Farming: The Emergence of Exclusive Property Rights in Kentucky Prehistory




Pastures Lost: The Decline of Mobile Pastoralism among Maasai and Rendille in Kenya, East Africa




Landscape Acts and Property Regimes in the Ecuadorean Amazon




Coffee, Abolition, and Immigration: Driving Forces in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Landscape Transformation




Political Economy and Institutional Interactions



Unsettled Landscapes: Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland




The Decentralized Landscape: Regional Wealth and the Expansion of Production in Northern Tanzania before the Eve of Colonialism




Maya Handicraft Vendors, Crime, and the Social Re/construction of Market Spaces in a Tourism Town




The Commercial Transformation of a Philippine Cityscape: A Case from San Fernando City, La Union



Index


About the Editors


About the Contributors