| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 438 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-432) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Landscape Studies: From Frame-and-Tame to Visceral Feeling -- 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 from within. |
| Summary |
In this interdisciplinary 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 twenty-five years, Forbes' study combines the rich detail of ethnographic fieldwork with historical and archaeological time depth, showing how landscapes have important meaning beyond the religious sphere in terms of kinship and ideas about the past and in their role as productive assets. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Landscape archaeology -- Greece -- Methana Peninsula.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Methana Peninsula.
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Archaeology and history -- Greece -- Methana Peninsula.
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Ethnology -- Greece -- Methana Peninsula.
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Methana Peninsula (Greece) -- History.
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Methana Peninsula (Greece) -- Antiquities.
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Methana Peninsula (Greece) -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9780521866996 (hardback) |
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0521866995 (hardback) |
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9781107410701 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
heb40181 hdl |
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