Landscape, Memory and History

Pamela J. Stewart is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her books include Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2005) and Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2003).Dr Andrew Strathern is Andrew Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of several books, including, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumours and Gossip (CUP, 2004), Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Landscape, Memory and History (Pluto, 2005) and Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2003).

• 1. Introduction by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders by John Gray3. Ceide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape by Stuart McLean4. Landscape Representations: Place and Identity in the Nineteenth Century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland by Angele Smith5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar by Janice Harper6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape by Veronica Strang7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia by Ruth Lane8. Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in Highlands New Guinea by Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland9. Island Builders: Landscape and Historicity among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands by Pei-yi Guo10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica by James G. CarrierEpilogue by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart