Archaeological Perspectives on Contested and Political Landscapes

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2025
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-485-5943-5 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on alternative definitions of landscape in archaeology, particularly those that explicitly address landscapes’ political aspects. In doing so, this volume emphasizes the non-static, dialogic nature of landscape within a community and acknowledges how a community’s composition and its relationship with the landscape can lead to tensions and even violent conflicts with other groups. It highlights the relevance of considering movement, borders, and conflict as sources for understanding how people create their own landscapes and how they reshape them in times of political conflict. For example, in contexts of colonization and war, people are forced to adapt to new politics and hierarchies as they see their personal and communal understanding of the world deeply transformed, something visible even today as political tensions constantly reshape local and global landscapes. Understanding how landscapes were created and contested in the past is essential for understanding their political, economic, and cultural manifestations in the present in order to better organize ourselves for a truly integrative future.

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a Venezuelan archaeologist specialising in Landscape research, regional surveys, and Geographical Information Systems. He studied anthropology with a specialisation in archaeology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (BA) and Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (MA). He then specialised in GIS in archaeology at the University College London (MSc), and later, he got his PhD in Archaeology at Leiden University. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and later at Aarhus University as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. He has recently started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Contested and Political Landscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Chapter 2. On Contested Taskscapes - Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Chapter 3. Archaeology in the Tripartito: Landscape and the nation-state in the south-central Andes - Noa Corcoran-Tadd, Chapter 4. The Dramatized Landscape of Juktas: A topoanalytic approach to a Minoan peak sanctuary in Crete - Maria Chountasi, Chapter 5. Lived space of displaced people: A comparative approach to contested spaces in Iron Age Northern Mesopotamia and modern Berlin - Vera Egbers, Chapter 6. The Landscape of Moving Tree Trunks and Other Unnatural Phenomenon: Contesting Archaeologies from the Global South - O. Hugo Benavides, Chapter 7. Landscapes of power and resilience: Aristocratic-driven landscapes in the Duero basin - Jesús García Sánchez, Chapter 8. Changing Landscapes, Changing People in Northwestern New Mexico - Kellam Throgmorton, Chapter 9. Cruzando la Cerca: Indigenous Mounded Landscapes in Nicaragua - Alexander Geurds, Chapter 10. Pretoria, drawing board of the Apartheid regime - David Koren, Chapter 11. Discussion: Reconsidering all that you see: reassessing landscapes in archaeology - Juan P. Bellón and Carmen Rueda

Erscheinungsdatum	11.03.2025
Reihe/Serie	Landscape and Heritage Studies
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	690 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	90-485-5943-X / 904855943X
ISBN-13	978-90-485-5943-5 / 9789048559435
Zustand	Neuware