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Historical ecology : cultural knowledge and changing landscapes.
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ISBN: 0933452853 Year: 1993 Publisher: Santa Fe School of American research press


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Imagining Serengeti : a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present /.
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ISBN: 9780821417508 9780821417492 0821417509 0821417495 Year: 2007 Publisher: Athens Ohio University Press

The anthropology of landscape : perspectives on place and space.
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ISBN: 0198278802 0198280106 9780198280101 9780198278801 Year: 1995 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into 'view', and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from these interconnected ways of considering landscape: the conventional, Western notion of 'landscape' may be used as productive point of departure from which to explore analgous ideas; local ideas can in turn reflexively by used to interrogate the Western construct.The Introduction argues that landscape should be conceptualized as a cultural process: a process located between place and space, inside and outside, image and representation. In the chapters that follow, nine noted anthropologists and an art historian exemplify this approach, drawing on a diverse set of case studies. These range from an analysis of Indian calendar art to an account of Israeli nature tourism, and from the creation of a metropolitan "gaze" in nineteenth-century Paris to the soundscapes particular to the Papua New Guinea rainforests. The anthropological perspectives developed here are of cross-disciplinary relevance; geographers, art historians, and archaeologists will be no less interested than anthropologists in this re-envisaging of the notion of landscape.

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Landscape assessment --- Human geography --- Geographical perception --- Space perception --- Cognition and culture --- Cognition and culture. --- Geographical perception. --- Human geography. --- Landscape assessment. --- Space perception. --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Perceptie en Beleving. --- Anthropogéographie --- Assessment [Landscape ] --- Biogéographie humaine --- Cognitie en cultuur --- Cultural geography --- Distribution géographique de l'homme --- Environmental perception --- Environnement [Perception de l' ] --- Espace géographique --- Espace--Perception --- Evaluation du paysage --- Geografie [Menselijke ] --- Geografische waarnemingen --- Geographical distribution of man --- Geography [Cultural ] --- Geography [Human ] --- Geography [Social ] --- Homme -- Distribution géographique --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Landschapsevaluatie --- Maps [Mental ] --- Menselijke geografie --- Oecoumène --- Oekoumène --- Paysage [Perception du ] --- Paysage--Evaluation --- Perception [Landscape ] --- Perception de l'environnement --- Perception du paysage --- Perception géographique --- Perceptual cartography --- Perceptual maps --- Représentation mentale de l'environnement --- Ruimteperceptie --- Ruimtewaarneming --- Spatial perception --- Écoumène --- Ékoumène --- Perception géographique --- Cognition et culture --- Géographie humaine --- Paysages --- Perception spatiale --- Evaluation --- #SBIB:316.334.5U13 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Perception --- Spatial behavior --- Figure-ground perception --- Assessment, Landscape --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Maps, Mental --- Mental maps --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Culture and cognition --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: sociale aspecten van de ruimte, sociale ecologie --- Toegepaste antropologie

Misreading the African landscape : society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic
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ISBN: 0521564999 0521563534 9780521564991 9780521563536 9781139164023 0511089716 1139164023 Year: 1996 Volume: 90 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Islands of dense forest in the savanna of 'forest' Guinea have long been regarded both by scientists and policy-makers as the last relics of a once more extensive forest cover, degraded and degrading fast due to its inhabitants' land use. In this 1996 text, James Fairhead and Melissa Leach question these entrenched assumptions. They show, on the contrary, how people have created forest islands around their villages, and how they have turned fallow vegetation more woody, so that population growth has implied more forest, not less. They also consider the origins, persistence, and consequences of a century of erroneous policy. Interweaving historical, social anthropological and ecological data, this fascinating study advances a novel theoretical framework for ecological anthropology, encouraging a radical re-examination of some central tenets in each of these disciplines.

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Environmental policy --- Forest ecology --- Human ecology --- Landscape assessment --- Savanna ecology --- Environmental Sciences and Forestry. Forestry --- Forest Ecology --- Ecology of Tropical Forests. --- Ecologie forestière --- Ecologie des savanes --- Kissidougou (Guinea : Region) --- Kissidougou (Guinée : Région administrative) --- Kissidougou (Guinée : Région administrative) --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Savannas --- Ecology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Forests and forestry --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Government policy --- Environmental conditions. --- Sociology of environment --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Guinea --- Environnement --- Ecologie forestière --- Ecologie humaine --- Paysages --- Politique gouvernementale --- Evaluation --- Environmental conditions --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Forest ecosystems --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Human ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Landscape assessment - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Forest ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Savanna ecology - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region) --- Environmental policy - Guinea - Kissidougou (Region)

The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone
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ISBN: 0520225430 0520225422 9780520225435 9780520225428 Year: 2001 Publisher: Berkeley: University of California press,

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Sierra Leone --- Mende (African people) --- Sex role --- Landscape assessment --- Mendé (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Mende (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Paysages --- Material culture --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- Culture matérielle --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Aspect social --- Evaluation --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Social life and customs --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Mendé (Peuple d'Afrique) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Culture matérielle --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Boumpe (African people) --- Hulo (African people) --- Huro (African people) --- Kossa (African people) --- Kosso (African people) --- Mende --- Mendi (African people) --- Ethnology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Social aspects. --- Mende (African people) - Material culture --- Mende (African people) - Social life and customs --- Sex role - Sierra Leone - Kpuawala --- Landscape assessment - Sierra Leone - Kpuawala --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) - Politics and government --- Kpuawala (Sierra Leone) - Social life and customs --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Mendé (peuple d'Afrique) --- Situation sociale --- Vie sociale et coutumes

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