Marking the Land: Hunter-Gatherer Creation of Meaning in their Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367874230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 304 str.

William A. Lovis; Robert Whallon

Opis

Marking the Land investigates physical landscape marking by hunter-gatherers. When and why do hunter-gatherer groups of varying sociocultural complexity and scale place markers on their landscape? When and why are such markers limited to simple, informational signs? When and why are markers invested with symbolic meaning? And when and w

Spis treści

1. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape “Marking”: The Multidimensional Construction of Meaning
 William A. Lovis and Robert Whallon
Section I:  The Northern Latitudes
2. Initializing the Landscape: Chipewyan Construction of Meaning in a Recently Occupied Environment
 Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach
3. Places on the Blackfoot Homeland: Markers of Cosmology, Social Relationships and History
 Gerald A. Oetelaar
4. Markers in Space and Time: Reflections on the Nature of Place Names as Events in the Inuit Approach to the Territory
 Claudio Aporta
5. Inuksuk, Sled Shoe, Placename: Past Inuit Ethnogeographies
 Peter J. Whitridge
6. Network Maintenance in Big Rough Spaces with Few People:  The Labrador Innu-Naskapi or Montagnais
 William A. Lovis
Section II: The Southern Latitudes
7. Physical and Linguistic Marking of the Seri Landscape – Are They Connected?
 Carolyn K. O’Meara
8. Bonescapes:  Engaging People and Land with Animal Bones among South American Tropical Foragers
 Gustavo G. Politis
9. Unfolding Cultural Meanings: Wayfinding Practices Among the San of the Central Kalahari
 Akira Takada
10. Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the Landscape
 Petronella Vaarzon-Morel
11. Signaling Presence: How Batek and Penan Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia Mark the Landscape
 Lye Tuck Po
Section III: Synthesis
12. Marked Sacred Places of Hunter-Gatherer Bands
 Robert Whallon
13. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape “Marking”: The Multidimensional Construction of Meaning
 Robert Whallon and William A. Lovis

O autorze

William Lovis, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, MSU Museum, Michigan State University

Robert Whallon, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan