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Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment
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Description for Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment
Paperback. How humans transformed mountains and other elevated areas into culturally rich living places through tangible and intangible social practices Editor(s): Scheiber, Laura L.; Zedeno, Maria Nieves. Num Pages: 264 pages, 33 illustrations, 24 maps. BIC Classification: HDDA; JHMC; RNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Humans have occupied mountain environments and relied on mountain resources since the terminal Pleistocene. Their continuous interaction with the land from generation to generation has left material imprints ranging from anthropogenic fires to vision quest sites. The diverse case studies presented in this collection explore the material record of North American mountain dwellers and habitual users of high-elevation resources in terms of social investment—the intergenerational commitment of a group to a particular landscape.
Contributors look creatively at the significance of social investment and its material and nonmaterial consequences, addressing landscape engineering at different times using diverse, theoretical standpoints and ... Read more
Humans have occupied mountain environments and relied on mountain resources since the terminal Pleistocene. Their continuous interaction with the land from generation to generation has left material imprints ranging from anthropogenic fires to vision quest sites. The diverse case studies presented in this collection explore the material record of North American mountain dwellers and habitual users of high-elevation resources in terms of social investment—the intergenerational commitment of a group to a particular landscape.
Contributors look creatively at the significance of social investment and its material and nonmaterial consequences, addressing landscape engineering at different times using diverse, theoretical standpoints and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814337
SKU
V9781607814337
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About
Laura L. Scheiber is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Laboratory at Indiana University, USA, and coeditor of two books. Her research interests include hunter-gatherer identities, zooarchaeology, ethnohistory, and culture contact and colonialism. María Nieves Zedeño is a research anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. She ... Read more
Reviews for Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment
“This volume elucidates important archaeological and ethnographic cases in which mountains transform, and become transformed by, human agency. The multi-disciplinary contributions document sophisticated landscape modification strategies that range from construction of facilities and features, to innovative high altitude settlements, to alteration of the very rhythms of mountain ecosystems. Only through the synthesis of science and Native domains of knowledge could ... Read more