Meaning & Identity Greek Landscape

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-86699-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 462 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 815 g

In this study, Hamish Forbes explores how Greek villagers have understood and reacted to their landscapes over the centuries, from the late medieval period to the present. Analyzing how they have seen themselves belonging to their local communities and within both local and wider landscapes, Forbes examines how these aspects of belonging have informed each other. Forbes also illuminates cross-disciplinary interests in memory and the importance of monuments. Based on data gathered over 25 years, Forbes' study combines the rich detail of ethnographic field work with historical and archaeological time-depth, showing how landscapes have important meaning beyond the religious sphere in terms of kinship, ideas about the past, and in their role as productive assets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forbes, Hamish

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geschichte der Geographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Landscape studies; 3. Historical background to the landscape of Methana; 4. Conducting fieldwork on Methana; 5. Kinship, marriage, and the transmission of names and property; 6. The productive landscape; 7. The historical landscape: memory, monumentality, and time-depth; 8. The kinship landscape; 9. The religious landscape; 10. Conclusions: a Greek landscape with relatives.