African Landscapes Interdisciplinary Approaches /
Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development of culture and society, as well as the ways th...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78682-7 |
Table of Contents:
- The Landscape Concept
- Landscapes as Archives of Past and Present Social-Ecological Dynamics
- An Introduction to Landscape in Geography, Landscape Ecology, and Archaeology
- Towards a Methodology of Landscape Archaeology
- Risks and Resources in an Arid Landscape
- Towards a Reconstruction of Land Use Potential
- Landscape Ecology of Savannas
- Quantitative Classification of Landscape Units in Northern Namibia using an ASTER Digital Elevation Model
- Landscapes, Power, and Memory
- The Anthropological Study of Landscape
- A Landscape of Goshen
- Lanscapes and Nostalgia
- From the Old Location to Bishops Hill
- Kinship, Ritual and Landscape among the Himba of Northwest Namibia
- The Spectator and the Dweller
- Is This a Drought and What is Really Beautiful?- Landscape and Language Cognition
- An Introduction to Linguistic and Cognitive Anthropological Approaches to Landscape Research
- Wadi and Water
- Conceptualizing Landscape in Mbukushu
- Two Ways of Conceptualizing Natural Landscapes
- Landscape Features of Otjiherero
- 'Landscapes' of Ancient Egypt
- Where Settlements and the Landscape Merge.