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Engineering mountain landscapes : an anthropology of social investment / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and María Nieves Zedeño.
- Title
- Engineering mountain landscapes : an anthropology of social investment / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and María Nieves Zedeño.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2015]
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- Description
- x, 201 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "Humans have occupied mountain environments and relied on mountain resources since the terminal Pleistocene. Their continuous interaction with the land from generation to generation has left material imprints ranging from anthropogenic fires to vision quest sites. The diverse case studies presented in this collection explore the material record of North American mountain dwellers and habitual users of high-elevation resources in terms of social investment{u2014}the intergenerational commitment of a group to a particular landscape. Contributors look creatively at the significance of social investment and its material and nonmaterial consequences, addressing landscape engineering at different times through diverse theoretical standpoints and archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data from varied mountain environments. Together, these original contributions demonstrate that social investment encompasses timeless ecological and ritual knowledge as well as innovation born from daily practice, tradition, and periodic adjustment to fit new social and political imperatives. Engineering Mountain Landscapes offers both substantive ideas of broad intellectual interest, specific case studies with state-of-art methodology, and a wealth of comparative data."--Publisher's website.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Central places in the backcountry : the archaeology and ethnography of Beaver Lake, Montana -- 3. Paths, places, and positions : exploring Rocky Mountain landscapes as resource, symbol, wilderness, and refuge -- 4. Engineering Alta Toquima : social investments and dividends at 11,000 feet -- 5. Social investment in regions of refuge : survival strategies among the Southern Paiute of southern Nevada -- 6. Ethnology of volcanoes : quali-signs and the cultural centrality of self-voiced places -- 7. Western Apache pyrogenic placemaking in the mountains of eastern Arizona -- 8. Beyond ethnonyms : interdisciplinary research on mountain identity in the Sierra Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico -- 9. Elevated landscapes in the Northern Plains : Hidatsa Butte-Top settlements as places of refuge -- 10. Mississippian frontiers in the highlands of southern Appalachia -- 11. People and mountains.
- ISBN
- 9781607814337
- 1607814331
- 9781607814344 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015015511
- OCLC
- 913057811
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library