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Historical archaeologies of spatial practices and power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2015

Jonathan Walz
Jonathan Walz*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 1000 Holt Avenue, CB 2761, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 32789, USA (Email: jwalz@rollins.edu)
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Archaeologists who employ regional landscapes as an organising principle tend to be more concerned about how landscapes—natural, built and imagined—reflect cultural values than how landscapes shape human relations and community perspectives. As the authors of these two volumes skilfully demonstrate, communities deploy landscapes to materialise, and even to naturalise, claims to political authority and power. They reveal how the study of landscape at multiple scales spurs narratives and counter-narratives about how people experience the world and vie for control of it. Together, J. Cameron Monroe and James Delle advance the inherent possibilities of space and scale in historical archaeology.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 346 , August 2015 , pp. 985 - 987
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

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