Inscribed Landscapes : : Marking and Making Place / / ed. by Meredith Wilson, Bruno David.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Michael,; Allen, Michael J.,; Ballard, Chris,; Carter, Paul,; Coleman Darnell, John,; David, Bruno,; Gardiner, Julie,; Langton, Marcia,; Lee, Georgia,; McNiven, Ian J.,; Pulvirenti, Mariastella,; Rainbird, Paul,; Rosenfeld, Andrée,; Russell, Lynette,; Scarre, Chris,; Stoddart, Simon,; Taçon, Paul S. C.,; Umberger, Emily,; Weiner, James F.,; Wilson, Meredith,; Yea, Sallie,
• HerausgeberIn: David, Bruno,; Wilson, Meredith,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Landscapes all over the world are inscribed with enduring physical marks. Socially constructed and engaged, landscape inscriptions (monuments, roads, gardens, rock-art) are foci of social experience and as such are symbolic expressions that mold and facilitate the transmission of ideas. Through inscription, landscapes become social arenas where the past is memorialized, where personal roots, ambitions, and attachments are laid, and where futures unfold. Inscribed Landscapes explores the role of inscription in the social construction of place, power, and identity. Bringing together twenty-one scholars across a range of fields--primarily archaeology, anthropology, and geography--it discusses how social codes and hegemonic practices have resulted in the production of particular senses of place, exploring the physical and metaphysical marking of place as a means of accessing social history. Two major conceptual themes link the chapters of this book: social participation and resistance. Participation involves interrelationships between people and place, the way inscribed environments and social experience intertwine; resistance relates to the rejection of modes of domination and their inscription in the landscape. The volume explores these themes in three parts: the first focuses on rock-art, the second on monuments, and the third describes how the physical and metaphysical articulate to inscribe places with meaning. Contributors: Michael Adler, Michael J. Allen, Chris Ballard, Paul Carter, John C. Darnell, Bruno David, Julie Gardiner, Marcia Langton, Georgia Lee, Ian J. McNiven, Mariastella Pulvirenti, Paul Rainbird, Andrée Rosenfeld, Lynette Russell, Chris Scarre, Simon Stoddart, Paul S. C. Taçon, Emily Umberger, James F. Weiner, Meredith Wilson, Sallie Yea.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. ROCK-ART -- 2. The Signature of Terror: Violence, Memory, and Landscape at Freeport -- 3. Ritual Response: Place Marking and the Colonial Frontier in Australia -- 4. Spaces of Resistance: Graffiti and Indigenous Place Markings in the Early European Contact Period of Northern Australia -- 5. Rock-Art as an Indicator of Changing Social Geographies in Central Australia -- 6. Wahi Pana: Legendary Places on Hawai'i Island -- 7. Making Sense of Petroglyphs: The Sound of Rock-Art -- 8. The Narrow Doors of the Desert: Ancient Egyptian Roads in the Theban Western Desert -- 9. Rock-Art and Landscapes -- Part II. MONUMENTS -- 10. A Sense of Time: Cultural Markers in the Mesolithic of Southern England? -- 11. A Place of Special Meaning: Interpreting Pre-Historic Monuments in the Landscape -- 12. Monuments in the Pre-Historic Landscape of the Maltese Islands: Ritual and Domestic Transformations -- 13. Imperial Inscriptions in the Aztec Landscape -- 14. Negotiating the Village: Community Landscapes in the Late Pre-Historic American Southwest -- Part III. BEYOND THE MARK -- 15. Anchoring Mobile Subjectivities: Home, Identity, and Belonging among Italian Australian Migrants -- 16. Inscriptions as Initial Conditions: Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia) and the Silencing of the Mark -- 17. Sarawak on Stage: The Sarawak Cultural Village and the Colonization of Cultural Space in the Making of State Identity -- 18. The Edge of the Sacred, the Edge of Death: Sensual Inscriptions -- 19. The Work of Inscription in Foi Poetry -- Contributors -- Index